Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thing Happening. The Mountain is not the only religious book in the bestseller ranks. Rivaling it in popularity, though not in caliber, are The Greatest Story Ever Told (Fulton Oursler's rewrite of the New Testament), Lloyd Douglas' The Big Fisherman, and Father James Keller's account of the Christopher movement, You Can Change the World. Some hard-boiled book men are cynical at the suggestion that this betokens a "trend." Said Robert W. Faith of a St. Louis Doubleday bookshop: "Some books on two themes always draw interest . . . those on sex and those on religion...
...letters have been made this way, time & again. "Think of . . . the boy Dickens [working] in the blacking warehouse, and his undying resentment of his mother's wanting him to stay there. Think of Trollope, at an upper-class school with holes in his trousers, because his father could not bring himself to dispense with a manservant. Ugh! Be a tramp or be a millionaire; it matters little which: what does matter is being a poor relation of the rich; and that is the very devil...
...year: 1857; the place: Dublin's Synge Street. Mrs. Lucinda Shaw has gone off on a visit to County Galway, leaving her one-year-old son George Bernard (known as "Bob") in care of his father, George Carr Shaw, co-partner in the respectable grain firm of Clibborn & Shaw. Naturally, mother Shaw wants to know exactly what catastrophes are taking place in her absence, so dutiful father Shaw picks up his pen and briefs...
...Father Shaw's notes on the Shavian infancy are included in George Bernard's own latest book, bits & pieces of autobiography called Sixteen Self Sketches. In Days With Bernard Shaw, Stephen Winsten, a writer and lecturer who lives next door to Shaw in Hertfordshire, gives an excellent record of their neighborly conversations over recent years. Fabian Essays, written 60 years ago by Shaw, Sidney Webb and others (and now re-issued with a new essay by Shaw himself) links up the years between. There is little of Shaw the playwright in these books, but much of Shaw...
...talk of the age into which I was born as a great age. I regard it as the most villainous page of recorded history . . . And the twentieth century is no better ... I have become the father confessor of the whole world ... I often get letters addressed to the Reverend George B. Shaw. You can deceive people some of the time, but they ultimately discover your true vocation . . . What if the central figure [in a play] is a man of wealth and very old? And . . . people gather around to advise him what to do with his money? The joke will...