Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Julie" will be presented again tomorrow and Monday, and for tonight's performance, the LHDS will present Shaw's "The Man of Destiny," with Edward McKirdy, lead in "The Questioning of Nick," in the title role. The Shaw play was presented at Leverett last year, and three actors from that production will appear tonight...
Quincy Howe, news commentator, will be the featured speaker tomorrow morning after a series of special seminars on newspaper subjects. Tentative topics for the seminar discussions include censorship, news writing, editorials, photography, and financial problems. John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, and Herbert Shaw of the University News Office will address the editors tonight...
Apart from its inherent drama, the Casement story is compelling today because it raised political passions as strong as those later provoked by a Klaus Fuchs or an Alger Hiss. Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton ringingly defended Casement. Others, including Poet Alfred Noyes, equally ringingly denounced him (this year, at 77, Poet Noyes published an emotional book reversing his earlier stand). It may have been a kind of Irish Faust who disappeared through the trap on the gallows of Pentonville Prison. Yet objective readers of Author MacColl's biography must agree that he was truly and justly...
With this volume, Wilson's game of intellectual hooky is certainly up. The book is a sequence of unblinking non sequiturs, half-fashioned logic and firm disregard for the English language. The merit of The Outsider was that it brought fresh insight to such diverse figures as Shaw and Hemingway, Van Gogh and T. S. Eliot, by casting them in the role of questing near-metaphysicians at the bedside of modern man. The tragic dilemma, as Wilson developed it, was that the Outsider had outdistanced the comforting illusions of everyday society while falling short of the luminous serenity...
...only powerhouse with which Colin Wilson has been visibly connected is the reading room of the British Museum. The obsessive idea he picked up there belonged to a previous chair-warmer at the same establishment, Bernard Shaw. It is that the Life Force makes everything make sense. Presumably this is the sense, if any, of Wilson's conclusion: "If life did not pervade space and time, the universe of matter would be tohubohu, complete chaos." As for the present state of Colin Wilson's mind and thought-tohu-bohu...