Word: shaw
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...Peter Shaw's latest book, American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution, addresses this ambivalence, as many historians have doen before, but Shaw examines the problem from a psychohistorical perspective. Shaw argues that the American patriots, individually and collectively, partook in ritualized behavior that eventually resulted in insurrectionary impulses, or, in the author's words, "rehearsed a revolution." By participating in ancient rituals of early American society and ammending them in their own particular ways, the patriots displayed a nascent and ultimately unstoppable desire for independence...
...reported sales of $130 million, a rise of 15% as compared with 242% last year. At rival Sotheby Parke Bernet, sales were up 20%, to $300 million, less than one-third last year's rate of 66%. "The market is much more selective now," explains Elizabeth Shaw, vice president of Christie's. "People are not just buying because they have nothing else to do with their money. They are more careful this season." Adds Robert C. Woolley, senior vice president of Sotheby's: "The person who is interested in buying an English commode, for example, will postpone...
...stuff Spy Who Loved Me. It's more in about The Man with the Golden Gun or Live and Let Die range. Perhaps one shouldn't complain too much about the frailty of the assumption of British hegemony that supports Bond. The nation of William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Rex Harrison and Arthur Treacher will never have to defend its reputation as a citadel of culture. Bond should probably be seen as an example of that culture and--damn the flatulence of the rest of the land--a noble example he remains. From the North Sea to the seats, rule...
...must wonder whether our world has become so barbaric that it is incapable of respecting the lives of God's own messengers of peace." It was hardly the first time it has happened, of course. After a militant Hindu nationalist shot down Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, George Bernard Shaw commented: "It shows how dangerous it is to be too good...
BORN. To Patricia Hearst Shaw, 29, heir to the Hearst publishing empire and former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive; and her husband Bernard Shaw, 35, the San Francisco policeman who served as her bodyguard after her arrest in 1975 and during her subsequent trial for bank robbery that led to a 23-month prison term; a daughter, their first child; in Palo Alto, Calif. Name: Gillian Catherine Hearst-Shaw. Weight...