Word: saints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Bernard Shaw: "Stockholm despatches announce I have just been awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.* Said I, slyly: 'I suppose it is because I wrote nothing that year.' My secretary believes the prize is for my play, Saint Joan, written in 1923. It is generally assumed that the award is made for my work as dramatist, in which I claim to be the superior of Shakespeare. But I spend more time on the prefaces to my plays than on the plays themselves, and I prefer my reputation as philsopher to that as dramatist...
...ancient blunders and is unenriched by past discoveries." Such a man must acquire "a theology which conserves all the Christian experience of the centuries, utilizes the gains of current philosophy and the sciences, and utters itself in convictions which grip the heart and constrain the conscience of sinner and saint, of educated and illiterate." And: "This seminary has been a protagonist for the freedom of the Christian mind...
...more than an expression of an eccentric personality. In its still short career it has been with the exception of Candida", the most widely praised of Shaw's plays. Now it has brought him one of the few "literary", prizes worth having, its permanency is only sanctified. "A saint," he says in the preface to 'St. Joan', "is a successful martyr." With his 32,500 dollars, Mr. Shaw can never be canonized...
...Saint Anselm", Professor Gibson, Emerson F, Philosophy...
Uncle George Clay is the central figure, a patriarchal country doctor of many opinions and few patients, the patron saint of practical joking, as prodigal of his considerable wit and scholarship as he is of his money. He sits in his big chair playing with his "chilluns," drinking punch, arguing temperance, theology, education; jesting coarsely, slyly, uproariously; secretly planning, and executing, gruff generosities...