Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BERNARD SHAW: COLLECTED LETTERS (1874-1897), edited by Dan H. Laurence. Shaw wrote as compulsively as he talked, and the 691 letters in this volume form a fascinating biography from the age of 17, when he was a Dublin real estate agent's clerk, to the age of 41, when he was on the eve of his first big success, Candida...
...bittersweetly beloved Dublin, scarcely a stout was downed in his honor at Davy Byrne's, the pub he celebrated. But in Paris, at the American Center for Students and Artists, 350 partisans of James Joyce got together to celebrate the 84th anniversary of his birth. After Author Mary McCarthy, Joyce Scholar Stuart Gilbert and the rest of the cult articulately wished him a happy birthday, the ghost of James lyrically garbled everything by reciting some of Ulysses from a tape recorder...
...tales have a fault, it is probably that some are actually character sketches rather than genuine short stories: an aging bachelor lies his way out of the hospital so he can go home to his cat; an elderly executive dies after fulfilling his dream of visiting Dublin. But minor faults are more than compensated for by one superb story, A Love Match, which tells of an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister. Author Warner not only makes the reader feel wholly sympathetic toward the characters, but in the soft-spoken telling, their relationship seems to become almost commonplace instead...
...counteract the year's lead time they must contend with, and gain more of the market, Wards and Penney have signed up name designers. Wards (last year's total sales: $1.8 billion) has twelve international designers, among them Jacques Heim, Rudi Gernreich, Fabiani and Clodagh of Dublin. J. C. Penney's (1965 sales: $2.3 billion) "Young Junior" look is by Mary Quant, Mitzou of Madrid, Ariel of Paris. Sears (1965 sales: $6.9 billion) calls its collection "Junior Route 1966," describes it as "young, racy, right in style." The catalogue companies have not, of course, completely forsaken...
...present collection forms a kind of epistolatory biography, covering Shaw's life from the age of 17, when he was a Dublin real estate agent's clerk ("in a decaying green coat, cuffs trimmed with the scissors"), to the age of 41, on the eve of his first great success, which came with the production of Candida. In those intervening years, he migrated to London to join his mother (who gave music lessons to support him and his sisters), wrote novels that earned him almost nothing, and finally became an established music and drama critic...