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Spelling is a donkeys' bridge we all must cross Sep 9, 2008
While it is slightly unfair to characterise members of this society as the kind of people who recoil at a lamb chop, shudder at beer and insist on wearing wool next to the skin, one should remember that a stalwart of their cause was George Bernard Shaw - never happier than when sitting in his Jaeger underwear in an ABC caf;, toying with a nut fritter and a glass of milk. Shaw it was who came up with the tired joke of spelling fish as "ghoti" (gh as in laugh; o as in women; ti as in motion). (Telegraph.co.uk)
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George Bernard Shaw wrote, "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.". Politics is not a spectator sport. (Benson San Pedro Valley News Sun, AZ)
Too much power Sep 2, 2008
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw If Sen. Obama gets the power he wants, our presidency will definitely change forever. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Christopher Plummer generates star power in Caesar and Cleopatra Aug 31, 2008
Plummer is the obvious reason the Stratford Shakespeare Festival has expanded its theatrical horizons this season to include Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw, a playwright primarily showcased at that other picturesque temple of Canadian theatre, the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Long a star in the Stratford firmament, the Toronto- born, Quebec-raised Plummer has an innate rapport with the spoken word. (Brantford Expositor)
Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research Aug 29, 2008
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -- George Bernard Shaw. "The only thing sadder than a young cynic, is an old optimist." -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmens). (Slashdot)
Mansion mystery dominates papers Aug 28, 2008
The Independent, meanwhile, reassures those in less cheerful places with the words of George Bernard Shaw: "A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.". Bookmark with. (BBC News -- UK)
Snail hides from march of history Aug 21, 2008
Amidst all this activity - and the visits down the years of luminaries as important as Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw and Charlie Chaplin - Papillifera papillaris has been a reclusive guest. What they're doing, what they're eating, we don't rightly know. (BBC News)
Dublin's fair city Aug 21, 2008
How else would you explain a city that can boast of Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, WB Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and a Jonathan Swift. Nearly all the deities of the literary pantheon had Dublin for a home. (India Times)
New actor impresses APT crowds Aug 17, 2008
by Eugene O Neill, Widowers Houses by George Bernard Shaw and The Belle s Stratagem by Hannah Cowley. For tickets and performance dates, call the APT box office at (608) 588-2361 or go online at. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Shaw Festival urged to diversify lineup Aug 14, 2008
The Shaw specializes in plays written by George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, as well as works, new or otherwise, set during Shaw's lifetime (1856-1950). The festival has never employed a black director and of its company of actors, numbering more than 65, eight are members of racial minorities. (Globe and Mail)
Giant reap for mankind? Aug 10, 2008
In the words of George Bernard Shaw: "I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the Earth as their lunatic asylum.". Source: The Sun-Herald. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
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Socializing with Youth Improves the Elderly's Health, Life Span Aug 7, 2008
Youth is a wonderful thing, George Bernard Shaw once said. What a crime to waste it on children. (Scientific American)
How one careless phone call ended Radovan Jul 27, 2008
The inimitable George Bernard Shaw summed up the Balkans spot-on in that slender volume we all read in high school, hence the comical elements of the Karadzic story, despite the overlying, Balkanizing horror. Janie B. Mayfield, Palo Alto, CA, USA. (Times Online)
Churning of the campaign machine Jul 27, 2008
GEORGE BERNARD Shaw said that political movements that rely on honest men and scholars are doomed, because there are not enough of them. The hangers-on, the opportunists, the yes-men, and the consultants give a political movement muscle, but they inflate their leaders more than anyone would inflate himself. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Overheard, out and about, Mrs. Grundy sees all, tells all Jul 26, 2008
It is also the birthday of George Bernard Shaw, the most famous British playwright since Shakespeare. Next week come the birthdays of Beatrix Potter (who wrote "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"), World War I, Booth Tarkington (American novelist), Alexander Dumas (French novelist), Emily Bronte (English novelist), and our national motto, "In God We Trust," a paraphrase of a line from "The Star-spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key, adopted in l956. (Andalusia Star News, AL)
Gordon Edelstein Smartly Revives 'Some Americans Abroad' Jul 25, 2008
This provides a telling comment on how the visitors entertain themselves when not suffering through an evening of George Bernard Shaw ("Major Barbara") or "Anthony and Cleopatra." Though he is working on a paper on Shakespeare's portrayal of the meeting of Egypt and Rome, Joe must skip that production because of the trouble with Donna Silliman. The 20-year-old has upset the order of the playgoing by disappearing with an Amherst student. (Hartford Courant)
Theater review: Roger Rees' Shakespeare show Jul 24, 2008
He's more obviously acting in quick impersonations of Voltaire or George Bernard Shaw than in the Shakespeare passages. His rendition of a Dickens scene from "Great Expectations" is touching and cleverly crafted. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The oldest profession gets a snore of an introduction Jul 21, 2008
By George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Jackie Maxwell. (Globe and Mail)
Own up; move on Jul 19, 2008
Respectively, these are quotes from guys who were intimately familiar with screwing up yet managed to carry on and achieve success and recognition - James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, and George Bernard Shaw. This attitude probably had a lot to do with their successes. (Nogales International, AZ)
Art.view: Once upon a good deed Jul 15, 2008
Its decorative scheme was based on early twentieth-century Irish literature, including writings by George Bernard Shaw and Se;n O'Casey. This was the work of Clarke. (The Economist)
Reaping rewards for cheating Jul 13, 2008
As George Bernard Shaw said: "If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.". Yet these are the disciplines, or perhaps indisciplines, that societies are obliged to work with. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Jarst you waaate, maaate Jul 13, 2008
The fictional Professor Henry Higgins thought up by George Bernard Shaw claimed to be able to pick the difference between the accents of those separated by just streets in London. A keen ear he was to the minuscule details of any accent. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Time to shell out for that green card Jul 4, 2008
Economics, he said in his Nobel Prize speech in 1992 (quoting George Bernard Shaw), is the art of making the most out of life. He championed the concept of human capital which was the title of his second book in 1964. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Finding a perfect marriage in 'Candida' Jul 3, 2008
STOCKBRIDGE - "Candida" was reportedly George Bernard Shaw's favorite of his own comedies, and the sparkling, intelligent production at the Berkshire Theatre Festival makes it easy to see why ... Play by George Bernard Shaw. (Boston Globe)
Spiritually Speaking: Stick together in hard times Jul 3, 2008
Pilgrim Churchs new pastor, Rev. John Hudson, at the church. By Rev. J.F. Hudson/Pilgrim Church. (Dover Sherborn Tab, MA)
Veteran actor touts modern twist on APT's Midsummer’s Night Dream’ Jul 2, 2008
Widowers Houses by George Bernard Shaw begins in previews Aug. 1, and The Belle s Stratagem by Hannah Cowley, opens in previews Aug. 8. For tickets and performance dates, call the APT box office at (608) 588-2361 or go online at. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Atkinson shines in 'pleasant' but not profound Candida Jun 28, 2008
Saturday 28 June, 2008. It is being given a thoughtful and, for the most part, detailed production at the Berkshire Theater Festival in Stockbridge, Mass. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Column: 'God has an open door policy' Jun 24, 2008
British sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein was visited in his studio by the prominent author George Bernard Shaw. The author noticed a huge block of stone standing in one corner and asked what it was for. (Saugus Advertiser, MA)
I'd rather be a gay divorcee Jun 22, 2008
As George Bernard Shaw said of people who preach the joys of matrimony: "If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?". On current trends, half of today's marriages in the US are going to end in divorce, even for those with children, so the prognosis for the longevity of gay and lesbian marriages is probably just as poor, since childless marriages break up at a higher than average rate. (guardian.co.uk)
Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters Jun 21, 2008
Having a love of both fame and adventure, Sylvia embarked on a career as an author, impressing patrons such as George Bernard Shaw and JM Barrie, in which she met with reasonable success. At the age of 24 Sylvia joined an all-female choral orchestra established by Margaret, the then Ranee of Sarawak, (a woman who clearly desired to provide her sons with a good pool of marriage material) and through that met her future husband Vyner. (Suite101.com)
Column: NASCAR, at its core, is just a game Jun 21, 2008
George Bernard Shaw once famously stated, "Youth is wasted on the young." (This, by the way, is a remark you will never hear from a young person. They may not know a good thing when they see one, but they have enough sense to understand that we geezers are touchy, and to keep their mouths shut on the subject. (Niles Star, MI)
Our Shakespeare: The Final Fraud! Jun 20, 2008
Restoration dramatists such as Thomas Otway, John Dryden and William Congrave show signs of his influence as well as modern playwrights John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett and George Bernard Shaw. Shaw rewrote the last act of Cymbeline, Tom Stoppard developed new characters for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Edward Bond created his own version of King Lear. (Suite101.com)
Film critic Ty Burr took your questions Jun 18, 2008
Ty_Burr: The original musical film was based on a Broadway play which was based on a George Bernard Shaw play which had already been made into a movie. Ty_Burr: So you could say it's already a remake. (Boston Globe)
Little known IMPAC prize awaits a lucky novelist Jun 11, 2008
In 1992, Dublin Lord Mayor Gay Mitchell wanted to start an international fiction prize that would call attention to the rich literary history of the city that spawned James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw and William Butler Yeats. Coincidentally, James Irwin, an Irish-American who is chairman of IMPAC, a productivity improvement firm whose European headquarters is in Dublin, "had in his mind that he wanted to do something about books, but he wasn't sure what," said his personal assistant, Christopher... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
* [THE WEEKENDER] The Scholar and the Executioner Jun 9, 2008
While the presentation of the play draws heavily on Chinese traditional culture, the theoretical underpinnings are very contemporary, and one can conceive of the whole as an ironic take on ideologically-driven drama of the Left, with nods to people as diverse as George Bernard Shaw and Pirandello. On top of that, the masked cast serves also as a kind of Greek chorus, commenting on the action and moving the story along. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Cosentino: Why RFK still matters Jun 7, 2008
He paraphrased George Bernard Shaw with Some men see things as they are and ask, Why. I dream of things that never were and ask, Why not. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
PLACES OF WORSHIP: Spiritual Awareness Center Jun 7, 2008
Scott gives a talk on "Feeling Safe," quoting George Bernard Shaw, Jesus and Religious Science movement founder Ernest Holmes. "I love the philosophy here," Deolinda Rhoads says. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Bobby recalled Jun 6, 2008
In his final campaign, he loved quoting George Bernard Shaw, whose words serve almost as an epitaph. "Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'". (BBC News -- Americas)
Knightley in My Fair Lady remake Jun 6, 2008
My Fair Lady is Lerner and Loewe's musical adaptation of Pygmalion, a stage-play by George Bernard Shaw. The production broke box office records when it debuted on Broadway in 1956 and made a star of the young Julie Andrews. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
What's ahead Jun 6, 2008
The characters include the lead, Abbey, a fit professional woman in her 40s; Swapneshwari, a Hindu goddess; Katie, a teenage Amazing girl ; Dr. Singer, a psychiatrist; Carolyn, a psychiatric nurse practitioner; Simone de Beauvoir; and George Bernard Shaw. In the play, Abbey Martin has a dead-end job, a flat-line marriage, her first hot flash, and she s just been informed that she s living in a post-feminist world. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
S.F. Opera takes on Wagner's 'Das Rheingold' Jun 6, 2008
Such a political and economic reading of the "Ring" has a long and eminent history, going back at least as far as George Bernard Shaw. But to cast it in the specific terms of U.S. history seems especially fertile. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Remembering Bobby Jun 5, 2008
One thing Kennedy said at Fresno City College made a lasting impression on Quintero -- a George Bernard Shaw quote that Kennedy often paraphrased in his campaign: "Some men see things as they are and ask why. We can dream of things that never were and say why not."Kennedy influenced Quintero's interest in politics. "I have that quote hanging on my wall at City Hall," said Quintero, a former Fresno City Council member who is now assistant to Council Member Mike Dages. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
An 'Iggins in common with Harrison Jun 4, 2008
So it's slightly ironic that he is to play Higgins - created by George Bernard Shaw for Pygmalion - one of the great snobs of the British theatre. Grant sees Higgins as both a "bully" and "more than anything, a classic public school boy who lives in this hermetically sealed world of phonetics and science". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Column: Mothers and fathers of Winston and Franklin Jun 1, 2008
George Bernard Shaw had a similar forgiving attitude towards his mother: Her almost complete neglect of me had the advantage that I could idolize her to the utmost pitch of my imagination. It was a privilege to be taken for a walk or visit with her. (Melrose Free Press, MA)
Will Saroyan's literary legacy be lost? Jun 1, 2008
At the height of his fame, Saroyan was depicted in a car- toon, sitting on a teeter-totter with George Bernard Shaw and vying for the title of "World's Greatest Writer." As a short-story writer, beginning with "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" in 1934, and playwright, with works such as his 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Time of Your Life," he was as well-known as Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck. "In 1942, he was No. 1 in rea- dership and name recognition," said Dickran... (Fresno Bee -- Local)
APT opens season with the first play it ever staged May 31, 2008
Starting in August, APT stages Widowers Houses, George Bernard Shaw s first play, a comedy with much to say on the subjects of love, class and what happens when they collide, Frank said ... Widowers Houses, George Bernard Shaw, previews begin Aug. 1; opening night Aug. 9. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Seniors receive Blacker Prizes for writing excellence May 28, 2008
Winston Hill read from his first prize paper, All Great Truths Begin as Blasphemies : George Bernard Shaw and the Independent Search for Truth. Kylie Gilchrist discussed her second prize paper, Irreconcilable Opposites: V.S. Naipaul s Divided World. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
The golden touch May 24, 2008
Like Oscar Wilde, like George Bernard Shaw, he believed in dress reform. When he wasn't dressed like a banker in striped morning trousers - with a firm fistful of gloves, and holding the brim of his hat - Klimt was naked under a self-designed burnous. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Jack the Ripper Revisited May 22, 2008
Playwright George Bernard Shaw once remarked that Jack the Ripper did more than any social reformer to draw attention to the intolerable conditions of Whitechapel's slums. The new Ripper exhibit recounts the unsolved murders through the prism of life in Victorian Whitechapel, using photographs, police files and press reports to bring the era to life. (Time.com)
Skeletons In The Closets May 21, 2008
Sir George Bernard Shaw once said, "If you can't hide the skeleton in your closet, then you'd better learn how to make him dance." Democrats and their enablers in the liberal media would like nothing better than to hide their embarrassing racial skeletons as they are on the verge of nominating the first black man ever to make a serious bid for the White House. Reminding me of this, was watching my friend Paul Begala and Donna Brazile mix it up on CNN recently over Hillarys Clintons blatant... (Townhall.com)
County Dorset May 11, 2008
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) had his fatal motorcycle crash near Clouds Hill in 1935; Moreton Church, where Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw attended Lawrence's funeral, is still there, handsomely restored after being hit by German bombs in World War II.. No doubt the county's most famous literary son, though, is Hardy (1840-1928), who was born in a thatched cottage near Dorchester and spent his last years in a great-house in that town, writing nearly all of his fiction and poetry... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Public to get peek at government's art treasure hoard May 6, 2008
Johnson and her small team now spend months brooding over what to send where: Byron, the very image of a romantic hero in absurdly splendid oriental costume, off to Athens; the Andy Warhol portrait of the Queen to Washington; a Bridget Riley to Cairo, inspired by the colours she saw on her visits to ancient Egyptian tombs; a painting by Carel Weight of a woman reading George Bernard Shaw to Dublin. At the moment the treasures in the London stores include the Lowry and the Freud, a gigantic early... (Guardian Unlimited -- Politics)
Iron Man: A Movie Marvel May 3, 2008
Tony is an arms dealer, an occupation that has fascinated playwrights for ages (George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman, Arthur Miller in All My Sons) and accounts for some of the evil-genius rep of Halliburton's gift to governance, Dick Cheney. In his first appearance in the March 1963 issue of Tales of Suspense, as written by Stan Lee and his brother Larry Lieber, and illustrated by Kirby and Don Heck, Stark was inspired by Howard Hughes in his Spruce Goose phase: titan of industry,... (Time.com)
Relaxed admission brings chaos to the British Library May 2, 2008
In its old, mustily glorious quarters in the British Museum, the British Library's main reading room was as exclusive as it was glamorous, a club rich with tradition whose distinguished alumni included Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw. But in 1998, the library moved to a modern red-brick building on Euston Road, and four years ago, it liberalized its admission policy. (International Herald Tribune)
Helping only the deserving victims of the credit crisis May 2, 2008
"I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor. That's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up against middle class morality all the time . . . I don't need less than a deserving man; I need more. I don't eat less hearty than him, and I drink a lot more." - Alfred Doolittle, in "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. "If investors choose to walk away because they put no money down and their free option is now worthless, we do not believe taxpayers should be held... (International Herald Tribune)
Junior achievement: This year's crop the best ever in NFL draft? Apr 23, 2008
By Larry Weisman, USA TODAY Youth, said George Bernard Shaw, is wasted on the young. He obviously never ran a draft board for an NFL team, where tender years count for so much. (USA Today -- Sports)
Polly Lauder Tunney, 100, fighter's widow Apr 16, 2008
Handsome and articulate, he lectured on Shakespeare at Yale and befriended George Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder and other writers, earning the scorn of the boxing establishment and many boxing fans. Polly Lauder, a striking beauty, met Tunney shortly before he won the heavyweight title from Jack Dempsey in one of the most stunning upsets in boxing history on Sept. 23, 1926. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
A Living Lie Apr 15, 2008
Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw included the working class among the "detestable" people who "have no right to live." He added: "I should despair if I did not know that they will all die presently, and that there is no need on earth why they should be replaced by people like themselves.". Similar statements on the left go back as far as Rousseau in the 18th century and come forward into our own times. (Townhall.com)
• U.S. Catholic college presidents summoned to meet pope Apr 15, 2008
Playwright George Bernard Shaw is said to have joked that the phrase "Catholic university" was an inherent contradiction, that it was impossible to combine church teachings with a university's need for intellectual inquiry. "There is real tension between those two cultures, and it's never going to be resolved," said Privett. (Q13.com, WA)
Daily ritualsWriters reveal how they get their creative juices flowing Apr 11, 2008
Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Roald Dahl did it in sheds at the bottom of the garden. Shaw's desk was famously on castors, so he could turn it throughout the day to get maximum light. (BBC News -- UK)
Irony twists fate Apr 7, 2008
Literary genius -- Irish playwright and pundit George Bernard Shaw was visiting the United States in 1933, and he was denying that he characterized Americans as "blind, deaf and dumb" in the presence of Helen Keller. 50 years ago. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
The Curious Gardener's Almanac Mar 29, 2008
"Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter." ~George Bernard Shaw. Gardening Tips and Wisdom. (Suite101.com)
URI Concert Choir steps back in time for April 5 performance Mar 29, 2008
Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson and George Bernard Shaw published new books. A dollar was worth 20 in modern purchasing power. (Westerly Sun, RI)
