Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roosevelt called the President of Venezuela "a pithecanthropoid," according to Morris, and once referred to the lionized George Bernard Shaw as "a blue-rumped ape." Sir Mortimer Durand, His Majesty's Ambassador to the U.S. back then, was denounced as a fellow with "a mind that functions at six guinea-pig power." The Populist Senator William Peffer was immortalized as "a well-meaning, pinheaded, anarchistic crank, of hirsute and slab-sided aspect." That latter bit might make it a little difficult for the victim to throw off the effects with a laugh. Still, all of Morris' research...
...liveliest, the British theater celebrates the now, not the then. It is a glorious cacophony of playwrights' voices, of eloquent agnostics fulminating like defrocked prelates, debating the fate of modern man with irony and rant. This line of dramatists began not with John Osborne but with Bernard Shaw, and at the end of a ranter's play the theatergoer should echo the fond last words of Shaw's Man and Superman: "Go on talking...
...Greek, Metamorphosis, Hamlet) is simultaneously avant-garde and deja vu. Actors in whiteface mime extravagant gestures, confronting the audience with stylized, scatological invective. It is like being back in the rumble seat of '60s performance art, but with a raw poetic urgency. Other English play wrights may update Shaw; Berkoff wants to be an East End blend of Sam Shepard and Jean Genet. West, the first of his plays to infiltrate the West End, can be seen as a new West Side Story. Mike (Rory Edwards), leader of a quintet of Hackney toughs, challenges a rival gang boss...
...Shaw points to a hunger strike this spring in support of Harvard divestiture from companies that do business in South Africa as a forceful, yet non-confrontational form of protest. By modifying the organization's political tactics. Shaw believes he can draw more widespread student support for the group, which he says has been perceived as a small clique of Black students. This can be done without sacrificing its commitment to Black issues on campus, he adds...
...Shaw's strategy for the BSA is based on the premise that Black students will be attracted to a dynamic, activist Black political organization. Since the organization has reawakened this spring, it has drawn less criticism and more members...