Word: shaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...DEAD JOCKEY, AND OTHER STORIES (242 pp.)-Irwin Shaw-Condom House...
...Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled childhood, when her father was with the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva, Stella Zilliacus obviously kept her eyes open and the tape recorder of her memory turned on. Real names drop like ripe plums-Nehru, H. G. Wells, Anthony Eden, Bernard Shaw-and the fictional ones seem to be readily guessable. What emerges is a wickedly witty portrait of an atheistic, humanist household headed by a zealot father who devoutly believes that religion is "nothing but a means of maintaining injustice, corruption and poverty," and a euphoric mother who dismisses all that...
Henry Treece's Carnival King was an especially unhappy choice for the Theatre on the Green's opening number by contrast with the remainder of the 1957 bill of fare, which includes Moliere's Would-be Gentleman this week and next, and later Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and Shaw's Man and Superman--all of which present a delightful and heady prospect indeed...
...conference on the "Uses of Literary Criticism" has been scheduled for Wednesday, July 24 at Sanders Theater at 8:30 p.m., with Elizabeth Hardwick as moderator, Newton Arvin, Saul Bellow, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Denber Lindly. "Dear Liar," the letters of George Bernard Shaw, has been scheduled for Wednesday, July 31, at Kresge Auditorium at 8:30 p.m., to be read by Jerome Kilty and Cavada Humphrey...
...choice of a play this year fell on Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple," which had four performances. It is not the best Shaw, but it is the only full-length play he wrote about America and the first of his works to be staged in this country. The play begins as a romantic melodrama, but suddenly turns into a witty farce of lese-majeste in the last...