Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once known as an ill woodwind that nobody blows good, this relatively new instrument suddenly struck the U.S. mass ear in the 1920s in the hands of Ted Lewis, who made it wail, and reached peak popularity in the pre-World War II days of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, who made it swing. It is still a must in every Dixieland and New Orleans jazz group, but is rare as a hot lick in modern combos. What happened...
...Artie Shaw agrees. "The clarinet is a clear, positive instrument. Cool music has a tendency toward fuzziness. It depends on hints or suggestions rather than definite, clear-cut statements. Most so-called cool jazz seems to have evolved from music played in low ranges−trombones, tenor and baritone saxophones." Clarinetist Shaw is currently living in Spain, building himself a huge stone mansion on the Costa Brava, and talking about retiring to live...
...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Eternal Joan, with excerpts from Anatole France, G. B. Shaw, Mark Twain, Voltaire...
...writing in the Observer: "The Outsider is an exhaustive and luminously intelligent study of a representative theme of our time . . . truly astounding." Part of the critical hubbub rose from the fact that Author Wilson, just turned 25, shows a staggeringly erudite grasp of the works and lives of Bernard Shaw, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William Blake, George Fox, H. G. Wells, Henri Barbusse, Hermann Hesse, Van Gogh, T. E. Lawrence, Nijinsky, Sartre, Camus, Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Gurdjieff and Sri Ramakrishna, not to mention many lesser figures. But what makes The Outsider a compelling intellectual thriller...
...hope-in Wilson's personal pantheon is George Bernard Shaw. Shaw, he finds, recognized that despite poverty, horror, sickness, injustice and death, life pronounces its ultimate comment and blessing on life by indefatigably and irresistibly re-creating itself. While this is a philosophical "happy ending," it sounds suspiciously like a chaos of fecundity, something that scarcely bothered Shaw (or Wilson either, apparently) since the sage of Ayot St. Lawrence had a bumptious faith that the Life Force, as he called it, was busily breeding a race of pure, disembodied intellects or super-Shaws...