Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atypical Shaw in certain ways. It abounds in action, making it less talkative than Man and Superman or Saint Joan. The characters are more three-dimensional and very finely drawn; they espouse philosophies, instead of embodying them, as is so often the case with Shavian types. Often, in fact, they seem to echo characters of other plays by Shaw, only they turn out not to be what they seem. This motif runs through Heartbreak House...
...applied. A burglar enters the premises, as does the long-lost daughter of one of the guests. Relationships among the characters are tangled--nobody is quite what he appears to be. Eventually the knots become untangled, in revelations amusing to the audience but painful for the characters--heartbreaking, in fact...
...amateur in Victor Canning's Birdcage (Morrow; 233 pages; $8.95) is a young ex-copper handling his first major assignment for British intelligence. In fact, he is made to walk two sides of the street, London's Birdcage Walk, home of a covert security operation. Kerslake, as he is called-when treating of the lower classes, the English seldom assign first names-is sent to Portugal to investigate Sarah Branton, who is most definitely U. Sarah has spent eight years in a nunnery and has been saved from a suicidal drowning attempt by Richard Farley, a charming drifter...
Committee member Bradshaw must have been among Allison's more enthusiastic listeners. The oil executive received his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1942 and taught there for the next ten years. In fact, two-thirds of the members of the Kennedy School's Visiting and Advisory Committees are corporate executives of partners in corporate law, management or investment firms. This is in spite of official University policy that Visiting Committees comprise persons who "are knowledgeable and experienced in the fields which they are called upon to examine." A Business School organ, happily echoing Allison's speech, said...
Hunt counseled against reading too much into the fact that nine records were broken, noting that the old marks were set when the program was just embarking on the road to respectability. He expects that the records will continue to fall as the season progresses...