Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY. Man's first step on the moon lends new immediacy to Stanley Kubrick's epic film about a voyage to Jupiter that assumes awesome metaphysical consequences. Kubrick is one of the best American film makers, and 2001 may be his masterpiece...
SHAW: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1856-1898), selected by Stanley Weintraub. Shaw never wrote one. But this paste-and-scissors portrait fashioned from fragments of the great man's work serves its purpose well enough...
Impossible dream? Perhaps. But during his lifetime the man known as Stanley Clifford Weyman was feted as the U.S. Consul General to Algiers, highly praised as Silent Star Pola Negri's private physician and duly appointed Special Deputy Attorney General of New York. In addition-among countless other achievements-he helped handle the arrangements for Rudolph Valentino's celebrated funeral, once addressed a medical convention on "psychiatric treatment in prison institutions" and managed to be received at the White House as an interpreter assigned to a visiting princess from Afghanistan...
SHAW: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1856-1898), selected by Stanley Weintraub. 336 pages. Weybright & Talley...
...Shavian sublime and the G.B.S. ridiculous are both visible in the two latest products of the Shaw scholastic industry. Dr. Stanley Weintraub, a leading Shavian expert in the U.S., has culled biographical bits from the detritus of Shaw's mountainous writings to make a paste-and-scissors "autobiography." British Historian R. J. Minney has formed a pattern of sorts from some industriously gathered anecdotal bits. Though the Shavian shavings do not quite add up to the beard of the prophet, Weintraub's book at least proves that Shaw was perhaps the greatest autobiographer who never wrote...