Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drama Group met with Eliot tutors a few weeks ago, shortly after a program had been announced for next year that included "Oedipus Rex," Sheridan's "The Critic," "Henry IV," Parts I & II, Shaw's "Heartbreak House," and "Midsummer Night's Dream...
...glance through the catalogue reveals the danger of making generalizations about either students or their interests. While arts and crafts are the most popular courses, subjects range from "Why the Weather" to "Five Plays of Bernard Shaw" and "The Art of Decoupage." Those to whom current events are a mystery may take "Whats Going On?" while conversationalists who read can enroll in "Books and Coffee." There is "Bach for Beginners" and "Bird Study," "Poetry Writing" and "Playing Popular Music." Nine language courses are taught, and no fewer than eleven different music courses are on the curriculum...
...independence much in the same way as does Harvard. Even at the Center academic freedom plays a role, though more in the sense of permitting a high degree of internal control in scheduling courses. Fads come and go at the Center, and if members become bored with Bernard Shaw, nothing prevents them from going to watch the birds in Mt. Auburn cemetery. The only problem is to find some one who can distinguish nuthatches from tufted titmice...
More than most men, sure Playwright George Bernard Shaw, who cordially hated both, was sure of death and taxes. Death caught him in 1950. Taxes caught him, in their most pernicious malevolence, last week. After having coughed up $505,-598.98 from Shaw's estate so far, his executors were alerted by Britain's tax collectors to brace themselves for future bills totaling $670,401 more. Provisional total tax claim on Shaw's estate: $1,176,000 - which not only gobbles up his life savings but also takes what was left of a $200,000 bequest from...
Lewis 4, Smith 2, Lane 2, Dawidoff, Shaw...