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Róisín Ingle: I have a list in my head of unwritten letters. Now I will write them

The Irish Times 23 Apr 2025
George Bernard Shaw wrote a lot of letters in his lifetime ... This is where I came across George Bernard Shaw’s gloriously truculent ripostes, along with a 1953 letter from author Shirley Jackson in response to a reader who didn’t enjoy her work ... .
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Enough Is Enuf by Gabe Henry review – the battle to reform English spelling

The Guardian 23 Apr 2025
The idea of the ghoti is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but there’s no evidence that he coined it ... Efforts to fix that might seem niche, but Shaw is one of many luminaries who have had a go ... ....
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A progressive pope?

Dawn 23 Apr 2025
BEFORE going in for heart surgery, a “rather vain Jesuit” asks God whether this is the end, and is informed that he would live for another 40 years ... And perhaps, paraphrasing Lenin’s reference to George Bernard Shaw, his epitaph should be ... .
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Ex-CEC: Judge a man by talent, not religion

The Times of India 22 Apr 2025
The maximum number of Bangladeshi infiltrators were made voters in Santhal Pargana during your tenure.”Quraishi hit back with a cryptic post on micro-blogging site X, quoting George Bernard Shaw, “I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig ... .
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Embracing blasphemy

Billings Gazette 18 Apr 2025
All great truths,” George Bernard Shaw observed, “begin as blasphemies.” One god instead of a pantheon … a round world … all men created equal … those now-accepted premises, and the belief systems they led to, began as blasphemy. Three ... .
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25 Women for 2025: Michelle Nickens pursues dreams, from research to theater to mediation

Tallahassee Democrat 15 Apr 2025
The 25 Women You Need to Know and Five Young Women to Watch for 2025 ... The essence of Michelle Nickens hangs on her office wall, in a quote from George Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman.” ... I rejoice in life for its own sake ... If you love something, do it.
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‘You wouldn’t pick us out as mother and daughter!’: Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter on ...

The Guardian 13 Apr 2025
‘It’s amazing that I came from you,” says Bessie Carter to her mother, Imelda Staunton, during a break in rehearsals for the forthcoming revival of George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession, in ...
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Bessie Carter says working with mother Dame Imelda Staunton was ‘dream’ of hers

London Evening Standard 13 Apr 2025
The mother-daughter duo will star opposite one another in a West End revival of George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession ... .
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‘Enough Is Enuf’ Review: A Dream of Simpler Spelling

Wall Street Journal 13 Apr 2025
George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has been resistant ... .
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Bridgerton's Bessie Carter on working with mom Imelda Staunton: 'Dream come true'

The News International 13 Apr 2025
The 31-year-old, who is gearing up to star opposite her award-winning mother in George Bernard Shaw's adaptation of Mrs Warren's Profession, couldn’t stop swooning about the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity ... "I just sit here and think ... .
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Bridgerton's Bessie Carter on 'dream' role with mother

RTE 13 Apr 2025
The mother and daughter duo are to star opposite one another in a West End revival of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs Warren’s Profession. Bessie, 31, is the only child of Olivier award-winning actress Imelda and Downton Abbey’s Jim Carter, who wed in 1983.
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‘You wouldn’t pick us out as mother and daughter!’: Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter on acting together for the first time

The Observer 13 Apr 2025
‘It’s amazing that I came from you,” says Bessie Carter to her mother, Imelda Staunton, during a break in rehearsals for the forthcoming revival of George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession, in ...
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Jane Addams Hull-House exhibit showcases museum's lead role in Chicago's theater scene

Chicago Sun-Times 13 Apr 2025
‘Act Well Your Part’. When. Opens April 14. Where ... Halsted ... Over these years, the Hull-House Players performed works by Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O’Neill and George Bernard Shaw as well as works by Chicago writers, including Ben Hecht and William Vaughn Moody.
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Snapshots by the master of prose

Deccan Herald 12 Apr 2025
<p>George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was the only person to receive both the Nobel Prize and an ...
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"I’ve really done quite a lot with my life, haven’t I?" Twiggy sits down with Bazaar

Harpers Bazaar 10 Apr 2025
She maintained a screen career throughout, including – her personal highlight – a television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion in 1981 ... the George and Ira Gershwin musical My One and Only.

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