One language, two cultures separate U.S., U.K. Sep 22, 2009
The United States and United Kingdom, famously described by George Bernard Shaw as two countries separated by a common language, have always managed to do business. But the Pittsburgh firms that have set up shop there make a point of being cognizant of nuances. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
Rational talk about medical rationing Sep 20, 2009
A century ago, George Bernard Shaw wrote a play called "The Doctor's Dilemma" that presaged one of the central issues of our current health care crisis. In the play, a doctor must decide whether to use the last dose of a tuberculosis vaccine to save an aging fellow physician or a young artist. (Albany Times Union)
Date Lines: A youthful Bridge School Benefit Sep 17, 2009
John Steinbeck and George Bernard Shaw share the stage with William Shakespeare in the 2010 California Shakespeare Theater season to be announced today. Cal Shakes' 20th season in its Bruns Memorial Amphitheater in Orinda opens in June with the world premiere of John Steinbeck's "The Pastures of Heaven," adapted by the prolific Octavio Solis and developed with the performance troupe Word for Word and Cal Shakes artistic director Jonathan Moscone. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Mencken and His Enemies Sep 12, 2009
His output was varied as well as large, including the first books in English on George Bernard Shaw and Friedrich Nietzsche, a pioneering study of the American language in a book by that name, and volumes on religion (Treatise on the Gods), politics (Notes on Democracy), and the fairer sex (In Defense of Women). Teachout discusses all of these works and relates the details of Mencken s personal life in an effective, economical fashion. (The American Conservative)
What nourishes Thailand may destroy it Sep 12, 2009
It brings to mind a favourite quote of mine that I believe is attributable to George Bernard Shaw. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, an unreasonable man tries to adpat the world to himself. Therefore all progress is due to the unreasonable man.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Today Best Bets Sep 11, 2009
A Celebration of George Bernard Shaw & Oscar Wilde. 8 p.m., Seney-Stovall Chapel. (Athens Banner-Herald)
The Secret of Happiness Sep 11, 2009
After all, as George Bernard Shaw once said, humans have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it (Seldes). So, what is the secret of happiness. (Suite101.com)
Head Ball Coach needs to show patience against Georgia Sep 9, 2009
to paraphrase george bernard shaw (and this is a great predictor of how the uga season will go ) The reasonable man accepts the world for what it is. The unreasonable man persists on trying to make the world conform to him (or his gameplan. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Passion and reason Sep 1, 2009
-- George Bernard Shaw. Remembrances of Sen. (Anchorage Daily News)
SA's worldly wonders Sep 1, 2009
Article By: Lauren Watters Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:10 George Bernard Shaw (1856 1950), an Irish playwright whose work spanned more than 60 plays, once said, We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. This can never be more pertinent than in the case of appreciating and preserving the wonders of the world, starting right on our very own doorstep. (iAfrica.com)
Get lost in an art book Aug 27, 2009
Published: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:11 AM HST Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw proposed that without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. Art has been a human passion since cave-dwellers first began embellishing their walls and their tools and since Plutarch first called painting silent poetry. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
NormanChadCouch Slouch No-holds-barred observations on the world of sports television. Aug 24, 2009
(Column Intermission II: I spend a lot of time in Las Vegas, which reminds me of what George Bernard Shaw once said: "Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing."). 17. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Shakespeare Authorship Controversy Aug 18, 2009
With the birth of bardolotry, the term coined by George Bernard Shaw for Shakespeare worship, that doubts arose. Stratford Man Uneducated. (Suite101.com)
When you retire ... Aug 5, 2009
jack lalanne 94George H.W. BushJimmy CarterWarren Buffett, age 77Morgan Freeman is 71Robert Redford is 72Paul VolckerThe Pope is 80Robert Wagner, 78 The Dalai Lama, 73 Tom Smothers, 71 Bob Newhart, 79 Peter Graves, 82 Hugh Hefner, 82 Yoko Ono, 75 Don Pardo, 90 Kirk Douglas (actor) Mother Teresa Charlton Heston (actor) Elizabeth Taylor (actress) Hugh Hefner Robert Redford (actor) Barbara Walters Maya Angelou Min Bahadur Sherchan (oldest to scale Mt. Everest according to this) George Jones... (Columbus Telegram, NE)
Top Article: Food For Thought Jul 28, 2009
What do George Bernard Shaw, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Leonardo Da Vinci, Paul McCartney, and Pythagoras have in common. If your answer is they're all towering figures of European culture, you're only half right. (India Times, India)
He wrote the stuff of Irish Jul 20, 2009
Find the Irishness, for instance, in George Bernard Shaw or Samuel Beckett. James Joyce masked his behind a prose so impenetrable as to be deniable as a testament to ethnicity. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, Dies Jul 20, 2009
" The result was his memoir Angela's Ashes, which appeared in 1996, when McCourt was 66. The book told the story of his early years in a voice purged of anger and bitterness and self-pity. In an extraordinary act of forgiveness, he wrote about his father with humor and even compassion. Angela's Ashes was published quietly, as the personal memoir of an Irish childhood. "My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all," McCourt said. But it became first a critical... (Time.com)
Brothers share the stage at American Players Theatre Jul 18, 2009
The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw, through Sept. 19. The Winter s Tale, by William Shakespeare, through Sept. 26. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
'West End Horror' is more about Sherlock Holmes than murder Jul 16, 2009
Among the more recognizable are George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Gilbert and Sullivan, and a young H.G. Wells. "For a little while, I think the audience is going to say 'Wow. This is not what I expected,'" said Wes Hennings, who plays several roles, including Wilde and Sir Arthur Sullivan. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Krugman best taken in reverse Jul 14, 2009
- George Bernard Shaw ... To turn George Bernard Shaw's maxim on its head, it is futile to follow any gaggle of economists not because they are wrong as a group but because individually some of them are right sometimes, but not always. (Asia Times Online)
Why Statistics are like a Bikini... Jul 8, 2009
As George Bernard Shaw wisely observed, "all professions are conspiracies against the laity.". "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.". (Human Events Online)
Lions of Victorian theatre Jul 5, 2009
He has written at least three biographical masterpieces: of Lytton Strachey, George Bernard Shaw, and of himself and his parents. So Michael Holroyd must have found it tempting to tackle in A Strange Eventful History those most colorful deities of Victorian theater: the much-worshiped Ellen Terry and her formidable actor-manager, Sir Henry Irving, along with each one s two children. (Boston Globe)
None Dare Call It Marxism Jul 4, 2009
In "Basic Economics," Thomas Sowell puts it this way: "Profits may be the most misconceived subject in economics. Socialists have long regarded profits as simply 'overcharge,' as Fabian socialist George Bernard Shaw called it, or a 'surplus value' as Karl Marx called it." The theory is that under socialism or Marxism, these surplus charges would be eliminated and goods and services would become more affordable. But in reality, socialism doesn't make goods and services more affordable, but less... (Townhall.com)
Sitting In: Dance and romance: a womans tale Jun 30, 2009
Patrick showed us what George Bernard Shaw had in mind when he said that dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire. To this day, the music of Dirty Dancing sets my hips swaying. (Danvers Herald, MA)
HTC superintendent: 'Be a risk taker. Drive at your dreams.' Jun 28, 2009
Cautioning against conformity, Thomson cited George Bernard Shaw s encouragement to live life not as a brief candle, but as a blazing torch, doing good and working hard. Tripsas reminded those present that the words of the school s Alma Mater have meaning and import. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Feller Returns To MoundThe Hall of Fame's oldest living member turned back the clock, pitching in an old-timers' game. Jun 23, 2009
If George Bernard Shaw had been born in America, he would have written that baseball, not youth, "is wasted on the young." This is the game of memory, the sport laced with history. The old-timers' formula is a prefect fit for the Hall of Fame. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- MLB)
Norman Lear looks back on his career Jun 21, 2009
There was a marquee that said Major Barbara, my favorite play by George Bernard Shaw. There was a guy sweeping the walk, and he told me to come back for the show and he d get me in. (Boston Globe)
Remembering Charles Sabatier, advocate for many Jun 19, 2009
His favorite quote by George Bernard Shaw A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
It's the unreasonable people who really shape the future May 23, 2009
George Bernard Shaw once said, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.". Sharing the same insight, the authors believe social entrepreneurs, with their ability to see opportunities where others may perceive problems, will be an important force in addressing the challenges of environmental pollution, poverty, pandemics, etc. (Xinhuanet, China)
Can People Learn While Sleeping? May 22, 2009
In Aldous Huxley s novel Brave New World, hypnopaedia was discovered after a Polish-speaking boy named Reuben Rabinovitch, who had fallen asleep while listening to an English radio broadcast by George Bernard Shaw. When he awoke, he could recite what he had heard, word for word even though he was English-illiterate. (Suite101.com)
#82 NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONTARIO May 15, 2009
Everyone comes down, though, for summer's Shaw Festival, which celebrates the works of playwright George Bernard Shaw. That's only the beginning -- this year, ten of Noel Coward's short plays will be presented, along with John Osborne's "The Entertainer." Tickets are reasonable -- the festival takes over three very different venues right in town (). (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Should I Use Stage Directions in My... May 9, 2009
Whereas some playwrights, like George Bernard Shaw, chose to include extensive stage directions at the beginning of his plays, outlining every detail of how his scripts were to be produced and performed, other playwrights, including William Shakespeare, chose to use incredibly sparse stage directions, mentioning only when characters entered and exited the stage. This article takes a look at what stage directions are and how they are used in dramatic scripts, followed by a consideration of the... (Suite101.com)
Noël Coward's Tonight at 8:30 Series at Shaw Festival Makes Repertory Theatre History Apr 28, 2009
About the Shaw Festival Inspired by the brilliance, bravery, humanity and humour of George Bernard Shaw, the Shaw Festival is a crucible of progressive and provocative ideas, which illuminate our understanding of today's world. The Shaw's playbill, centred on the era of Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), covers a diversity of views that shine light on different worlds during a period of extraordinary shift. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Romancing the Jihad Apr 18, 2009
Glazov's book indicts Left artists and intellectuals - e.g. George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht and Susan Sontag -- for having "venerated mass murderers such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, and Ho Chi Minh, habitually excusing their atrocities while blaming Americans and even the victims for their crimes.". Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Left spent several years wandering in the wilderness. (Townhall.com)
Judge Rejects Obama's 'State Secret' Defense From Spying Lawsuit... Apr 18, 2009
As George Bernard Shaw once stated. "The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from it". (The Drudge Report)
Sherry Was a Champion in Life Apr 10, 2009
George Bernard Shaw once wrote, "Youth is wasted on the young." He meant of course young people can't appreciate their vitality, potential and opportunities because they're callow. I would argue Devin Sherry was the antithesis of such thinking. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Swings like teen spirit: McIlroy leads Augusta youth invasion Apr 9, 2009
Native Dubliner and author George Bernard Shaw once opined, "Man can climb the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long." Does that Irish saying apply to kids, too. Maybe we're about to find out. (CBS News)
Visit Rotorua Thermal Wonderland of... Apr 3, 2009
According to the website, Hell s Gate was given its English name by George Bernard Shaw, who visited the thermal park in the early 1900s. Hell s Gate is open from 10:00am to 5:00pm daily except Christmas Day. (Suite101.com)
The Death of Modern Finance Apr 1, 2009
After all, as George Bernard Shaw observed, "all professions are a conspiracy against the laity.". Yet there was always something distressingly artificial about the assumptions behind modern financial theory. (Human Events Online)
Book Review | 'A Strange Eventful History': Ellen Terry and Henry Irving: Co-stars in a life on the English stage Mar 28, 2009
The actress Ellen Terry, whom George Bernard Shaw loved from afar and wrote to compulsively, had a captivating walk-on role in Michael Holroyd's magisterial biography of Shaw. In his new book, "A Strange Eventful History," she has been promoted to leading lady and shares the stage with Henry Irving, who was her real-life co-star. (International Herald Tribune)
I'm such a turnoff -- ask my family Mar 27, 2009
-- George Bernard Shaw. The current times have prompted some governments to act. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Generic and 14th Grade to perform this weekend Mar 27, 2009
While Generic will focus on the annals of the real estate business with "Glengarry Glen Ross," 14th Grade Players will present a period comedy, Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman." ... "Man and Superman," written on 1903 by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, centers on a man and woman in love, following the couple as the woman attempts - and succeeds - in manipulating the man into proposing. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Letters to the Editor Mar 24, 2009
As George Bernard Shaw once said, "Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.". Robert Bows Boulder, Colo. (Christian Science Monitor)
Of Epic Proportions Mar 22, 2009
Though she says she spent most of the past year writing, she recently staged a new Jeffrey Hatcher adaptation of a George Bernard Shaw novel in Florida and "adapted an enormous project" for a Los Angeles company. Next on her plate are Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and "Idomeneo" and three productions of Gluck's "Orfeo," which will take her from Portland to Atlanta, Boston and Virginia. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Money woes in North Iowa Mar 22, 2009
George Bernard Shaw said the lack of money is the root of all evil. Woody Allen said money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
What Was I Going To Say? Mar 18, 2009
George Bernard Shaw (at least I think I remember that it was Shaw) famously quipped that "Youth is wasted on the young." One great aspect of getting older is that you gradually shed your self-consciousness. To quote Cher's character in "Moonstruck," you "get over yourself." Young people are in perpetual fear of being embarrassed, of saying or doing or wearing the wrong thing. (Townhall.com)
Anna Manahan; Irish actress won Tony award in 1998 Mar 17, 2009
But she was largely known for her stage work in the plays of Ireland's great writers - J.M. Synge, Oscar Wilde, Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, and Brian Friel, among others - and her performance in "Beauty Queen," McDonagh's first play, helped propel him into the first rank of contemporary playwrights, both Irish and otherwise. In the play she was Mag Folan, a frail, sour-tempered, and grievously selfish woman sharing a simple cottage in the rural west of Ireland with her only unmarried... (Boston Globe)
Buyer beware Mar 14, 2009
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it." - George Bernard Shaw. Central banks across the Group of Seven leading industrialized countries are opening their purse strings with the first wave of quantitative easing (QE) measures seen in the current generation. (Asia Times Online)
Nashoba Drama presents My Fair Lady March 20-22 Mar 14, 2009
The musical is based on George Bernard Shaw s play Pygmalion and debuted in 1956 in a number of theaters, including a run on Broadway. It follows the story of Eliza Doolittle (played by Jackie Murtha), a Cockney flower girl whose accent is more than enough to break the concentration of an expert in phonetics, Henry Higgans (Michael Sestito). (Bolton Common, MA)
Playwright Profile - Ellen Chorley Mar 9, 2009
Emma Burden Writer Discusses Her Process. An interview with emerging playwright Ellen Chorley, who at only 24 is already a Playwright-in-Residence, producer, and actress. (Suite101.com)
Going vegetarian to save the planet Feb 25, 2009
" - Einstein Archive 60-058 The above quotes are from: The Expanded Quotable Einstein, collected and edited by Alice Calaprice. By the way, among the Vegetarian elite are Leonardo DaVinci, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Mahatma Gandhi, Paul McCartney, Kate Winslet and the list goes on. ". CarpeDM wrote on Feb 23, 2009 3:49 PM:" This has less to do with being some plant nibbler and more about "Hey look at me. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Jon Shure's perspective Feb 25, 2009
Robert Kennedy paraphrased George Bernard Shaw when he said, "Some people see things as they are and say, 'Why?'" Others dream things that never were and say, 'Why not. " Jon Shure is one of those very rare people who saw a need, filled the need, and, as a result, made a huge difference in people's lives. I thank him for that and am confident that the organization he founded will continue to be in the thick of things -- raising issues, promoting debate and offering practical, progressive... (NJ.com -- Times)
- From the desk of: Rummage sale a success 0 Feb 18, 2009
As George Bernard Shaw said, Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and it s a pleasant thing to do. P.S. If there were no one to watch them drive by, how many people would buy a Mercedes. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
The Youngest Master Feb 16, 2009
George Bernard Shaw lambasted the composer s kid-glove gentility, his conventional sentimentality, and his despicable oratorio mongering. Mendelssohn remained popular, but he seemed to slip from the ranks of the truly great. (New Yorker)
Shafer: Zadie Smith's Intriguing Theory About Obama's Eloquence Feb 13, 2009
"He can speak them," Smith writes, because he possesses an ear that can really hear them, the way that George Bernard Shaw heard the variants of English and captured them for the page. Smith points to the comic dialogue from Dreams From My Father to illustrate his linguistic dexterity. (Slate)
Bad science and politics go together Feb 11, 2009
It was supported by prominent people like, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, William Keith Kellogg, and "Margaret Sanger". The "interventions" preached and practised by eugenicists involved prominently the identification and classification of individuals and their families (including the poor, mentally ill, blind, 'promiscuous women', homosexuals) and entire "racial" groups as "degenerate" or "unfit", the... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Save the tadpole, say possessive purists Feb 10, 2009
George Bernard Shaw denounced apostrophes as "uncouth bacilli", and ignored them. The critic C.C. Barfoot called them "the single most unstable feature of written English". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Theater review: Melodrama scores with ‘Pointed Toes’ Feb 10, 2009
Like George Bernard Shaw s Pygmalion or its musical adaptation My Fair Lady, someone wants to learn better etiquette and become more civilized. They find a tutor and the battle begins. (Santa Maria Times)
200 years later - and still a star Feb 8, 2009
Others jumped on the bandwagon including George Bernard Shaw, who criticized Mendelssohn for his kid-glove gentility, his conventional sentimentality and his despicable oratorio mongering. Despite these attacks, Mendelssohn's music has survived. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Obama makes pit stop at Welk theater Feb 8, 2009
As a fundraiser for its 2009 season, Patio Playhouse will present a benefit staged reading of the play "Dear Liar," featuring Patio veterans Jim Clevenger and Kelli Harless starring as playwright George Bernard Shaw and his stage muse, Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at Patio Playhouse, 201 E. Grand Ave., Suite 1D, Escondido. (North County Times)
Students find their niche as artists Feb 8, 2009
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche called art "essentially the affirmation, the blessing and the deification of existence." George Bernard Shaw declared "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable," and fellow scrivener Henry Miller said that "art teaches nothing except the significance of life.". Members of the National Art Honor Society at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School have their own thoughts on the subject. (Ambler Gazette, PA)
