Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This correspondence is getting intolerable," George Bernard Shaw complained to his diary in 1891. Sixty years later he was still grumbling and still corresponding. According to Editor Dan H. Laurence, Shaw "must in his lifetime have written at least a quarter of a million letters and postcards." It was an incomparable output; only his ego was larger...
...political Shaw bombinates in the wings: "Socialism without compulsory labor and ruthless penalization of idleness and exploitation is nothing but a hopeless confusion of Socialism with Liberalism." And the vegetarian is never far away: "I do not eat flesh, fish or fowl . . . You can be Sancho Panza on any food provided there is enough of it. If you want to be Pythagoras, you have to be more careful...
...Shaw adds, "I see a lot of potential...
Kilson may thus have been correct when he made his criticisms years ago, Shaw says, but today "the is out of touch with what students are like...
...addition, they say that the Foundation does not fulfill its own goals: "I don't think it's had a big impact on race relations on campus," says Shaw. "Students do not have a better understanding of what it means to be Black if they're not Black, or Asian if they're not Asian...