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...great works of architecture were monuments that survived from the past. Furnishings became increasingly valuable by becoming antique. Great literature never became out of date. "Literature," Ezra Pound observed, "is news that stays news." The new enriched the old and was enriched by the old. Shakespeare enriched Chaucer; Shaw enriched Shakespeare. It was a world of the enduring and the durable...
...novels of Anthony Trollope and starring Emmy Winner Susan Hampshire, will begin on PBS stations in the U.S. this month. The big three American networks did not show much interest in this approach until last February, when ABC gambled $5.5 million on a twelve-part adaptation of Irwin Shaw's Rich Man, Poor Man. Shaw's saga of self-made Millionaire Rudy Jordache and his black-sheep brother eventually collected 23 Emmy nominations and helped boost ABC past its network rivals...
...that Kevin Shaw had to play an ambidextrous Eli who hit both left handed and right-handed forehands in that match...
Wolfe's problem is his concern with style, with appearance, with fashion. One can only decide that he fancies himself the new Bernard Shaw. He goes on at great lengths in "Funky Chic" defending Evelyn Waugh whom he says will be remembered as the greatest English novelist of the 20th century for his concern with the stuff of life--manners, dress, the Right People. He continually attacks what he considers the accoutrements of bogus sophistication--white-walled apartments on Riverside Drive, unread stacks of The New York Review of Books, Coltrane records on the stereo. All that can be said...
ALONGSIDE XEROX COPIES of three much reworked manuscripts, James's Portrait of a Lady, Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, and two poems by E.E. Cummings, the new Writing Center in Hilles Library displays a Doonesbury cartoon on its bulletin board. In the cartoon Zonker Harris is banging away at his typewriter. "Man, have I got a lot of papers due," he says to B.D., who is watching over his shoulder. "Most problems, like answers, have finite resolutions," Zonker writes. "The basis for these resolutions contains many of the ambiguities which condition man daily struggles with. Accordingly, most problematic solutions...