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The Genius of Shaw : a symposium
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Bernard Shaw
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To his own generation Bernard Shaw's greatest creation seemed to be himself. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist and irresistible charmer, he was the most controversial literary figure of his age and the scourge of all that was most oppressive in late-Victorian England. In his writing and public speeches, he embodied the unfamiliar virtues of reason, sense and unanswerable good humor. And yet, as the opening volume of this masterly four-volume biography makes clear, Shaw's invention of this monumental figure was a paradoxical method of concealment and his way of coming to terms with a world that had abandoned him in childhood. - Jacket flap.
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The genius of temperance
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Image of an allegorical woman (Genius) in flowing garb and star circlet pointing the way towards a life of temperance with two very different views of civilization in the background behind her; at left a dismal and sad view of a town rife with "disorder and drunkeness" with a fight in the street and a large mob gathered to watch a hanging; at right a utopian future without evils with large temple, happy groups of people socializing, boats on a lake, and beautiful views.
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This drawing reveals another flash of John Eastwood's genius
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This drawing reveals another flash of John Eastwood's genius, a design for prestressed concrete transmission towers, rather than the traditional wooden or steel poles. Such concrete towers were not used at Big Creek, but have been experimented with elsewhere in recent years.
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Wilson, J---- G----. 1 letter to Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend Shaw, A.L.S. (1 p.), (1930, Nov. 4), London (Eng.)
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With envelope. On verso: autograph note from George Bernard Shaw. Originally enclosed with: group of letters from Charlotte Shaw to J.G. Wilson; now cataloged separately.
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Shaw, David
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Approx. 35 items: memos, letters, speech transcripts, clippings and other material related to LAT staffer David Shaw, the sometimes controversial LAT media critic. (Shaw died in 2005) Prominent names among the letters: Warren Christopher, Robert Lawrence Balzer, Sen. Alan Cranston. Other items: 30-pp. David Shaw speech transcript, at Univ. of Hawaii, 3/8/1983 ; 11-pp. speech transcript, remarks by Joel Strasser at Intl. Conference on Energy Use Management, Tucson, 10/25/1977 ; 48-pp. booklet produced by National News Council, An Open Press, which has a long article in it by Shaw, "Scoop - rush to judgement in the newsroom" ; etc. Examples of letters praising Shaw are included.
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Shaw, David
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Approx. 55 items: memos, letters, speech transcripts, clippings and other material related to LAT staffer David Shaw, the sometimes controversial LAT media critic. Prominent names among the correspondents: A.M. Rosenthal (Editor - NY Times), Katharine Graham (Publ., Wash. Post) - also copy of New York (mag) article by Shaw (11/15/1976), complete issue of Quill (2/1977) with a Shaw article, many more examples of his work and reaction--pro and con.
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