Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BERNARD SHAW: VOLUME I, 1856-1898, THE SEARCH FOR LOVE...
Holroyd subtitles this volume, the first of a projected three, The Search for Love. It ends, fittingly, with Shaw's marriage to heiress Charlotte Payne- Townshend in 1898. By then Shaw had published many of the plays that ensure his reputation today, including Mrs. Warren's Profession, You Never Can Tell and Arms and the Man, each of which has had a major New York City production within the past three years. He had already abandoned a prodigious journalistic career as an essayist and a critic of art, theater and music -- although he insisted his dramas too were a form...
...city's Riverwalk and in hotel lobbies and elevators, where the songsters break out in "woodshedding" -- the impromptu jam-session-like warbling of old chestnuts -- the camaraderie runs thick. At the Hyatt Regency, three old-timers search the crowd for a baritone. "Come over here, Jamie," one hollers. Let Me Call You Sweetheart suddenly gushes forth, halting a bellman in his tracks...
...intense search reflected the anguish of American families who still cannot be certain whether their missing loved ones are alive or dead. With a persistence born from desperation, they continue to demand a full accounting of the 2,393 servicemen listed as missing in action in Southeast Asia, 1,757 of whom were lost in Viet Nam.* "The driving force is the uncertainty," says Ann Mills Griffiths, executive director of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. "We are determined to seek answers...
...question of hypocrisy in holding tobacco stocks comes up when one considers that numerous researchers and professors at the Medical School and School of Public Health have not only come out against smoking but continue to research the health hazards it causes and search for cures. Harvard even has an American Cancer Society professorship, funded by an organization that spends a great deal of time convincing others not to smoke...