Word: shaw
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...issued supplements, the OED has served as the last word on English words. But now, 350 years after the first British settlers arrived on these shores, and 200 years after the locals sent their British bosses packing, the Oxford authorities have decided to acknowledge the American Revolution. George Bernard Shaw once said, "England and American are two countries separated by a common language." Oxford does not try to bridge the gap; instead it has attempted to master the language from across the ocean...
Ward 7, Precinct 1. Residents of graduate dorms Ames Hall, Child Hall, Dane Hall, Holmes Hall, Perkins Hall, Richard Hall, Shaw Hall, Story Hall and Wyeth Hall vote at the corner of Sacramento and Oxford...
...admitting novelties like Ralph Waldo Emerson. At his retirement, he left a literary monument that remained un touched for almost a quarter-century. The year 1914 echoed to the guns of August, and the tenth edition of Bartlett's vibrated with new quotations from foreigners: Lewis Carroll, Nietzsche, Shaw, George Eliot (also, belatedly, Thoreau's Walden, but still no Hawthorne or Melville). The '20s and '30s brought yet another revolution in literary sensibilities, and new Editor Christopher Morley decided in 1937 that the best rule for choosing a quotation was simply his own taste. "We have...
None of the attempts to solve the Drood mystery is an aesthetic or financial success. George Bernard Shaw offers a reason: the novel was "a gesture by a man already three-quarters dead." Novelist J.B. Priestley counters, "Three-quarters dead though he might be, he was feeling his way towards yet another sort of fiction." That fiction is the modern mystery story, with its careful plotting, its characters subordinate to story, and its yielding of surprises as the drama moves toward denouement. To that end, Dickens wrote the only one of his work that can be summarized (although...
...Record companies are still conditioned to the late Sixties style of breaking new bands," charges Greg Shaw; "their whole approach to underground music is completely out-dated." Shaw's independent Bomp label and distributorship was formed in 1969. "The most effective marketing strategy today is to go through import channels. Elvis Costello, to name but one, was broken in this country through imports...