Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Students Association (BSA) last night effectively selected Alan C. Shaw '85 as its next president. More than 30 students attended last night's meeting to nominate officers for the BSA, but Shaw was the only nomination for the office of president...
Music is a form of spiritual carbon dating. If one came of age in 1938, then Artie Shaw's version of Begin the Beguine might be the signature he went by, the sound that would date his soul like the exact ring on a redwood. A few years earlier, it might have been Hoagy Carmichael doing Stardust...
...Chicago Biographer Alzina Stone Dale indicates in her spirited biography, Chesterton doted on paradox. The lover of tradition was a radical populist; the Falstaffian clown was a deeply committed intellectual; the friend of such freethinkers as George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells converted to Roman Catholicism at 48, and thereafter engaged in eloquent public debates with his colleagues...
...magazine assignments than he could decently fulfill. But even a breakdown at age 40 could not slow him. In self-defense he lauded the ephemeral: "The daily paper is more important [than books] because citizenship must be more important than art, Dale praises this attitude; after all, "Wells, Shaw, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy-all saw themselves involved with and influencing events." But those men attempted, with whatever ludicrous results, to reach far into the future. Chesterton's ideas were rooted in the past. He espoused "Distributism," a warm-hearted and thoroughly impractical program that recalled the days of yeomanry...
...published 78 books. Not all are fine or triumphant, and far more than half are forgotten. But that is no reason for regret. As Father Andrew Greeley, the sociologist and pop novelist, comments, "In Books in Print I found nine volumes of H.G. Wells and eleven volumes of G.B. Shaw ... for Chesterton the list goes up to more than thirty. With thirty volumes listed, who needs a 'revival'?" If one ever becomes necessary, The Outline of Sanity is the place to begin...