Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul W. Shaw, attorney for Nicholas J. Johnson, the Med School's associate dean for facilities and administration services, said former project architect Janet S. Baum has hired a lawyer and will file her response by October...
...Shaw said such extensions are fairly common and that granting Baum's request was not the result of a specific bargain...
Widowers' House: By George Bernard Shaw presented by Lyric Stage. Through Oct.27, with performances Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 5pm and 8:30pm, and Sundays at 3pm. Info call 742-8703. Lyric Stage, 54 Charles Street...
...Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist. As Britain battles with the Kaiser's troops from 1914 to 1918, nationalism mounts to a frenzy. The playwright-polemicist refuses to be carried along. "War reduces us all to a common level of savagery and vulgarity," he writes to a colleague, "but at least we can shew how foolish the whole business is even from the point of view of British and German Junkerdom." In the hysteria of conflict this dual indictment earns Shaw the enmity of his countrymen. Friends cut him dead; libraries remove his books from their...
...even in disappointed love, Shaw could never quite play the tragedian; the best he could manage was Pagliacci. These are the years of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the original Liza. Shaw was lured to her drawing room, Laurence notes, "at which time, by Mrs. Campbell's subtle contrivance, her bosom and his fingertips came into fleeting contact." Shaw is instantly smitten; he confesses to a friend, "I am on the verge of 56. There has never been anything so ridiculous, or so delightful, in the history of the world...