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Impish, irate, iconoclastic, that mind was robustly playful and evangelically fervent. Irish Actor Donal Donnelly has immersed himself in these characteristics of Shaw's mind, and that is one reason why his portrait of G.B.S., now off-Broadway at the Astor Place Theater, is as persuasive as it is irresistible...
Part of the problem may have been prompted by the script itself. The gondoliers are fervent believers in republican principles of equality. But that does not mean that their friends in the chorus, when dressed alike, have to act alike too. Shipley J. Munson and Jane Gitschier are consistent exceptions--the former by his air of zany snootiness, the latter by her charming joie de vivre...
...most good-hearted group of people it has been my pleasure to report on - and some of them were downright inspiring." Correspondent Rauch also gained a number of new insights. "The irony may well be that the conservatives who have been forced from their hearths by the fervent feminists may prove equally unable to go back," he noted. He envied the women conventioneers - of whatever political persuasion - their stamina. "They do much better on less sleep and liquor than their male counterparts." And he was surprised to find that Gloria Steinem was "a self-confessed junk-food freak. When...
...that leaves no worlds to conquer at home; in recent years much of the chain's fast sales growth has come from shopping by foreign tourists. Oddly, they include many Arabs-though the chain's top officers are such fervent Zionists that Marks & Spencer is on the Arab blacklist. Middle Eastern customers must snip the St. Michael's label out of the clothing they buy before bringing their purchases home. Still, M & S has seen fit to post signs in its main branch stores warning against pickpockets in English, French, German, Arabic and Farsi (the main language...
...himself as a manager: as chief of the 20,000 employee battery-making Chloride Group, he almost quintupled profits in five years to $47.5 million. He won the Guardian Young Businessman of the Year award in 1975. Though he will have to negotiate a companywide pact, Edwardes is a fervent believer in decentralized management who pledges to use "ruthless logic" in organizing executive teams to run Leyland as a group of "profit centers." He had better hurry...