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...amorist. As Britain battles with the Kaiser's troops from 1914 to 1918, nationalism mounts to a frenzy. The playwright-polemicist refuses to be carried along. "War reduces us all to a common level of savagery and vulgarity," he writes to a colleague, "but at least we can shew how foolish the whole business is even from the point of view of British and German Junkerdom." In the hysteria of conflict this dual indictment earns Shaw the enmity of his countrymen. Friends cut him dead; libraries remove his books from their shelves. Still his letters refuse to compromise, and their...
Even so, some 30,000 of Nature's noblemen did shew up on the 4th. of March, the appointed day. I will take the liberty of saying that they were not entirely as Diciplined as my Democratic boosoom could have wished. I clearly recall asking in my Inaugural Address for "the indulgence ... of my fellow-citizens." Scarce an hour had elapsed before I saw verry much more Indulgence than I had anticipated...
...century and a half later, seem like the never-never land of Arcady - veils it from us. It amounted to a prediction of impressionism, 40 years ahead. It was an attempt, as Constable put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature, to shew its effect in the most striking manner, to give 'to one brief moment, caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence...
...Sullivan is mumbling again about retiring, but no one believes him. Sure as Mass on Sunday, Old Stone Face will be back next season with yet another "really big shew" and everyone will be asking the old question. Perhaps the best answer is given by an old Sullivan regular, Comic Alan King. "Ed does nothing," he says. "But he does it better than anyone else in television...
...life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto...