George Bernard Shaw was a vocal communist and he was put on the cover of SGT. PEPPER’S for the same reason that Karl Marx was. The Beatles were good friends of Allen Ginsberg and Terry Southern and many others who were involved in the FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT in Berkeley in the 1960’s. The movement started off just being about FREE SPEECH, but then it turned quickly to the New Left and the Marxist-Leninist point of view. It was in this atmosphere in the mid-sixties that caused SHAW to be a logical choice to be on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s.
# Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimmer/Tarzan actor) # Stephen Crane (writer) – barely visible between Issy Bonn’s head and raised arm # Issy Bonn (comedian) # George Bernard Shaw (playwright) # H. C. Westermann (sculptor) # Albert Stubbins (soccer player) # Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru) # Lewis Carroll (writer) # T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”)
The Beatles first radio interview (10/27/1962)
The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) with Monty Lister at their first radio interview, 27 October 1962. Before their fourth and final live appearance at the Hulme Hall in Birkenhead, The Beatles recorded a radio interview for Radio Clatterbridge. It’s the first surviving spoken-word interview.
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George Bernard Shaw – Biographical
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent’s office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society, for which he composed many pamphlets. He began his literary career as a novelist; as a fervent advocate of the new theatre of Ibsen (The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891) he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage. His earliest dramas were called appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898). Among these, Widower’s Houses and Mrs. Warren’s Profession savagely attack social hypocrisy, while in plays such as Arms and the Man and The Man of Destiny the criticism is less fierce. Shaw’s radical rationalism, his utter disregard of conventions, his keen dialectic interest and verbal wit often turn the stage into a forum of ideas, and nowhere more openly than in the famous discourses on the Life Force, «Don Juan in Hell», the third act of the dramatization of woman’s love chase of man, Man and Superman (1903).
In the plays of his later period discussion sometimes drowns the drama, inBack to Methuselah (1921), although in the same period he worked on his masterpiece Saint Joan (1923), in which he rewrites the well-known story of the French maiden and extends it from the Middle Ages to the present.
Other important plays by Shaw are Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), a historical play filled with allusions to modern times, and Androcles and the Lion (1912), in which he exercised a kind of retrospective history and from modern movements drew deductions for the Christian era. In Major Barbara (1905), one of Shaw’s most successful «discussion» plays, the audience’s attention is held by the power of the witty argumentation that man can achieve aesthetic salvation only through political activity, not as an individual. The Doctor’s Dilemma (1906), facetiously classified as a tragedy by Shaw, is really a comedy the humour of which is directed at the medical profession. Candida(1898), with social attitudes toward sex relations as objects of his satire, and Pygmalion (1912), a witty study of phonetics as well as a clever treatment of middle-class morality and class distinction, proved some of Shaw’s greatest successes on the stage. It is a combination of the dramatic, the comic, and the social corrective that gives Shaw’s comedies their special flavour.
Shaw’s complete works appeared in thirty-six volumes between 1930 and 1950, the year of his death.
From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969
This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.
George Bernard Shaw died on November 2, 1950.
#02 How Should We Then Live? (Promo Clip) Dr. Francis Schaeffer
Berkeley’s Campus Free Speech Movement at 50
The Free Speech Movement: civil disobedience in Berkeley 1964
Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley (1964) – from THE EDUCATION ARCHIVE
I have dedicated several posts to this series on the Beatles and I don’t know when this series will end because Francis Schaeffer spent a lot of time listening to the Beatles and talking and writing about them and their impact on the culture of the 1960’s. In this series we have looked at several areas in life where the Beatles looked for meaning and hope but also we have examined some of the lives of those writers, artists, poets, painters, scientists, athletes, models, actors, religious leaders, musicians, comedians, and philosophers that were put on the cover of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. We have discovered that many of these individuals on the cover have even taken a Kierkegaardian leap into the area of nonreason in order to find meaning for their lives and that is the reason I have included the 27 minute episode THE AGE OF NONREASON by Francis Schaeffer. In that video Schaeffer noted, ” Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band…for a time it became the rallying cry for young people throughout the world. It expressed the essence of their lives, thoughts and their feelings.”
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Album really did look at every potential answer to meaning in life and to as many people as the Beatles could imagine had the answers to life’s big questions. One of the persons on the cover did have access to those answers and I am saving that person for last in this series on the Beatles.
How Should We then Live Episode 7 small (Age of Nonreason)
During this long series on the Beatles it has become quite evident that there were reasons why certain writers, artists, poets, painters, scientists, athletes, models, actors, religious leaders, musicians, comedians, and philosophers were put on the cover of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and that is the Beatles had made it to the top of the world but they were still searching for purpose and lasting meaning for their lives. They felt they were in the same boat as those pictured on the cover and so they called it appropriately Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. In his article “Philosophy and its Effect on Society Robert A. Sungenis, notes that all these individuals “are all viewing the burial scene of the Beatles, which, in the framework we are using here, represents the passing of idealistic innocence and the failure to find a rational answer and meaning to life, an answer to love, purpose, significance and morals. They instead were leaping into the irrational, whether it was by drugs, the occult, suicide, or the bizarre.”
#02 How Should We Then Live? (Promo Clip) Dr. Francis Schaeffer
Schaeffer compares communism with French Revolution and Napoleon.
1. Lenin took charge in Russia much as Napoleon took charge in France – when people get desperate enough, they’ll take a dictator.
Other examples: Hitler, Julius Caesar. It could happen again.
2. Communism is very repressive, stifling political and artistic freedom. Even allies have to be coerced. (Poland).
Communists say repression is temporary until utopia can be reached – yet there is no evidence of progress in that direction. Dictatorship appears to be permanent.
3. No ultimate basis for morality (right and wrong) – materialist base of communism is just as humanistic as French. Only have “arbitrary absolutes” no final basis for right and wrong.
How is Christianity different from both French Revolution and Communism?
Contrast N.T. Christianity – very positive government reform and great strides against injustice. (especially under Wesleyan revival).
Bible gives absolutes – standards of right and wrong. It shows the problems and why they exist (man’s fall and rebellion against God).
WHY DOES THE IDEA OF COMMUNISM CATCH THE ATTENTION OF SO MANY IDEALISTIC YOUNG PEOPLE? The reason is very simple.
In HOW SHOULD WE THEN LIVE? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture, the late Francis A. Schaeffer wrote:
Materialism, the philosophic base for Marxist-Leninism, gives no basis for the dignity or rights of man. Where Marxist-Leninism is not in power it attracts and converts by talking much of dignity and rights, but its materialistic base gives no basis for the dignity or rights of man. Yet is attracts by its constant talk of idealism.
To understand this phenomenon we must understand that Marx reached over to that for which Christianity does give a base–the dignity of man–and took the words as words of his own. The only understanding of idealistic sounding Marxist-Leninism is that it is (in this sense) a Christian heresy. Not having the Christian base, until it comes to power it uses the words for which Christianity does give a base. But wherever Marxist-Leninism has had power, it has at no place in history shown where it has not brought forth oppression. As soon as they have had the power, the desire of the majority has become a concept without meaning.
Is Christianity at all like Communism?
Sometimes Communism sounds very “Christian” – desirable goals of equality, justice, etc but these terms are just borrowed from the New Testament. Schaeffer elsewhere explains by saying Marxism is a Christian heresy.
Below is a great article. Free-lance columnist Bradley R. Gitz, who lives and teaches in Batesville, received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois.
#02 How Should We Then Live? (Promo Clip) Dr. Francis Schaeffer
Francis Schaeffer notes:
At Berkeley the Free Speech Movement arose simultaneously with the hippie world of drugs. At first it was politically neither left nor right, but rather a call for the freedom to express any political views on Sproul Plaza. Then soon the Free Speech Movement became the Dirty Speech Movement, in which freedom was seen as shouting four-letter words into a mike. Soon after, it became the platform for the political New Left which followed the teaching of Herbert Marcuse. Marcuse was a German professor of philosophy related to the neo-Marxist teaching of the “Frankfurt School,” along with...Jurgen Habermas (1929-).
Herbert Marcuse, “Liberation from the Affluent Society” (1967)
Brannon Howse talks some about the Frankfurt School in some of his publications too.
During the 1960’s many young people were turning to the New Left fueled by Marcuse and Habermas but something happened to slow many young people’s enthusiasm for that movement.
1970 bombing took away righteous standing of Anti-War movement
Francis Schaeffer mentioned the 1970 bombing in his film series “How should we then live?” and I wanted to give some more history on it. Schaeffer asserted:
In the United States the New Left also slowly ground down,losing favor because of the excesses of the bombings, especially in the bombing of the University of Wisconsin lab in 1970, where a graduate student was killed. This was not the last bomb that was or will be planted in the United States. Hard-core groups of radicals still remain and are active, and could become more active, but the violence which the New Left produced as its natural heritage (as it also had in Europe) caused the majority of young people in the United States no longer to see it as a hope. So some young people began in 1964 to challenge the false values of personal peace and affluence, and we must admire them for this. Humanism, man beginning only from himself, had destroyed the old basis of values, and could find no way to generate with certainty any new values. In the resulting vacuum the impoverished values of personal peace and affluence had comes to stand supreme. And now, for the majority of the young people, after the passing of the false hopes of drugs as an ideology and the fading of the New Left, what remained? Only apathy was left. In the United States by the beginning of the seventies, apathy was almost complete. In contrast to the political activists of the sixties, not many of the young even went to the polls to vote, even though the national voting age was lowered to eighteen. Hope was gone.
After the turmoil of the sixties, many people thought that it was so much the better when the universities quieted down in the early seventies. I could have wept. The young people had been right in their analysis, though wrong in their solutions. How much worse when many gave up hope and simply accepted the same values as their parents–personal peace and affluence. (How Should We Then Live, pp. 209-210
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Aug. 24 marked the 41st anniversary of the Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Four men planned the bomb at the height of the student protests over the Vietnam War. Back then, current Madison Mayor Paul Soglin was one of the leaders of those student protests in the capitol city. This weekend, Soglin recalled the unrest felt by UW-Madison students.
“The anti-war movement adopted a lot of its tactics and strategies from the civil rights movement which was about ten years older,” said Soglin. “It was one of picketing, demonstration, and passive resistance.”
The four men who planned the bombing focused on the Army Mathematics Research Center housed in Sterling Hall because it was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and therefore, worked on weapons technology. Karl Armstrong was one of the four men and he recently spoke with CBS News in his first television interview detailing the moments right before the bomb was set off.
“He asked me, he says, ‘Should we go ahead? Are we gonna do this?’ I think I made a comment to him about something like, ‘Now, I know what war is about,'” remembered Armstrong. “And I told him to light it.”
The bomb killed one researcher and father of three, 33-year-old Robert Fassnacht, although Armstrong maintains they planned the attack thinking no one would get hurt. The four men heard about the death as they were in their getaway car after the bomb went off.
“I felt good about doing the bombing, the bombing per se, but not taking someone’s life,” recalled Armstrong.
The researcher’s wife told CBS News that she harbors no ill will toward Armstrong and the other bombers. Three of the four men were captured and served time in prison. Armstrong served eight years of a 23-year sentence.
The fourth man, Leo Burt, was last seen in the fall of 1970 in Ontario and is to this day, still wanted by the FBI, with a $150,000 reward for his capture.
Fabian Socialist George Bernard Shaw In His Own Words
I pieced some clips of George Bernard Shaw together to give you a feel Fabian Socialism.
Shaw also supported Eugenics which is the classification of individuals and their families, including the poor, mentally ill, blind, deaf, developmentally disabled to allow for the elimination of “the wrong” people.
I added a couple of other clips where Shaw tells us to get rid of our Constitution and one of him praising Benito Mussolini.
To me, this guy was a real fruitcake!
If you want to find other clips you can go to http://www.movietone.com/N_search.cfm…
and search for George Bernard Shaw.
Oh, and please go to my website to learn about our founding principles:
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So, what do William S. Burroughs,Lewis Carroll,Stephen Crane,Aldous Huxley, and George Bernard Shaw have in common? A surprising number of you answered that their greatest works were drug-inspired. (That’s probably true for Burroughs; not sure about the rest.) Rather, the answer is that they’re all among the luminaries pictured in a famous group photo that marked its 40th anniversarythis week, the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. (Other authors featured in the “lovely audience” include Edgar Allan Poe, Terry Southern, H.G. Wells, and Oscar Wilde.) In the inset shown here, you can see Burroughs (upper left corner), Crane (behind Paul McCartney, partially obscured by a hand), Shaw (just above George Harrison’s hat), and Wells (upper right corner). Carroll is just out of frame on the lower right, next to Marlene Dietrich.
“This is the first HeadScratcher that I got immediately as soon as I saw the list, without having to do any IMDB or Wikipedia searches!” wrote Kevin Quillinan, one of many of you who got this right. “That either means I’m terribly wrong or I am way too obsessed with the Beatles.” (Well, you’re not terribly wrong, Kevin.) “You definitely had me going for awhile,” wrote Huxley fan Matt Nickerson. “I kept thinking it had to do with the Harry Potter theme park announcement but alas, a Brave New World ride does not exist.” (Alas, it does not, but I’d sure like to run the soma concession outside that ride.) Noted Lisa Courtney, “My husband and I are diehard Beatles fans, yet neither of us were born until long after the Beatles broke up. I first heard ‘A Day in the Life’ in the mid-’80s, and it totally ruined for me a lot of the music of that time (no big loss!).”
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.George Bernard Shaw (Heartbreak House, 1919)
George Bernard Shaw giving a Speech at a dinner in honor of Albert Einstein
George Bernard Shaw giving a Speech at a dinner in honor of Albert Einstein.
Theater Talk Life and work of playwright George Bernard Shaw
A discussion of the life and work of playwright GEORGE BERNARD SHAW with critic ERIC BENTLEY and actor PHILIP BOSCO.
Theater Talk is a series devoted to the world of the stage. It began on New York television in 1993 and is co-hosted by Michael Riedel (Broadway columnist for the New York Post) and series producer Susan Haskins.
The program is one of the few independent productions on PBS and now airs weekly on Thirteen/WNET in New York and WGBH in Boston. Now, CUNY TV offers New York City viewers additional opportunities to catch each week’s show. (Of course, Theater Talk is no stranger to CUNY TV, since the show is taped here each week before its first airing on Thirteen/WNET.)
The series is produced by Theater Talk Productions, a not-for-profit corporation and is funded by contributions from private foundations and individuals, as well as The New York State Council on the Arts.
Watch more at http://www.cuny.tv/series/theatertalk
(Rare!) George Bernard Shaw’s First Visit To America (1928 Fox Movietone Newsreel)
The great British/Irish playwright (and one of my personal favorite), George Bernard Shaw (or “The World’s Outstanding Literary Genius”, as the title card says) on Fox Movietone Newsreel. Filmed in August 26th, 1928.
Shaw says;
“Well, this is a surprise, have you all come to see me.. ladies and gentlemen? Well, I should never have expected this…. its extremely kind of you and I’m very glad to see you.
You know, I’m very glad to have come as I like people to see me. I don’t know how it is, but people who only know me from reading my books or sometimes see my plays get an unpleasant impression of me.
And….the people who meet me as you’ve been kind enough to meet me, when they see that I’m a most harmless person, I’m really a most kindly person, you know.
But…it’s not necessary for me to always look as genial as I’m trying to look now, of course I can put on the other thing.
(COVERS FACE WITH HANDS and glows at camera)
Now, that is, that is what I call my “Mussolini” style, and by the way I think in justice to Signor Mussolini, I ought to tell you that he has a very wonderful head – a wonderful brow which comes down to here. But the difficulty is that he can’t take it off…now if you watch me, I can put on that imposing look which terrifies you, a “Mussolini look”!
(Plays to camera)
But just watch…I can take it off! (Grins to camera)
Now, Signor Mussolini cannot take it off – he is condemned although he’s a most amiable man, he is condemned to go through life with that terrible and imposing expression which really does a great deal of injustice to his kindly nature…But I can put it on and I can take it off…and do all sorts of things.
One thing, of course, that I’m really glad you’ve seen me here, is that you will know me when you see me. I’ll tell you something that happened to me the other day….I was at Conway in North Wales…a little girl came over to me, she pulled out an autograph book and said, “please give me your autograph”.
I said “What do you want my autograph for…? I’m not Mr. Lloyd- George!” “Oh”, she said, ” I know you are not Mr. Lloyd-George”. Well I said, “Now, who am I?” “I don’t know – I’ve forgotten your name, but my Father told me to get your autograph.”
It’s quite possible that some little girl who is here on this occasion may imagine that she can get an autograph out of me that way, because I gave that little girl the autograph, but you won’t get me a second time…so it’s not the slightest use trying that on.
Now, ladies and Gentlemen, I’m afraid I’m always an extremely busy man – at least I pretend I am. And I’m afraid I must go back to work, I must say goodnight.
Ah, By the way….this may be a method, goodnight might not be the right thing to say, however, good afternoon, good-day, Good luck!”
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Featured Photographer is Robert Whitaker
Robert Whitaker, the photographer who captured iconic Beatles images, dies aged 71
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The photographer who shot some of the most famous images of The Beatles and other stars of the 1960s has died at the age of 71.
Robert Whitaker died on September 20 in Sussex after a long battle against cancer.
Whitaker took scores of well-known pictures of The Beatles at the height of their fame, including the controversial ‘butcher’ cover of the band’s 1966 American album Yesterday And Today.
Controversial: Whitaker photographed The Beatles for their album Yesterday And Today but the cover was replaced shortly after the record was released
Candid moment: Whitaker was able to take behind-the-scenes shots of The Beatles. here the band are seen relaxing on a flight from Hong Kong to Manila during their 1966 world tour. Pictured clockwise from left are George Harrison, manager Brian Epstein, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and chauffeur Alf Bicknell
The image of the Fab Four in white coats surrounded by decapitated dolls and slabs of raw meat proved too strong for record company Capitol, which ordered the cover withdrawn soon after the album’s release.
Dream job: Photographer Robert Whitaker spent two years working with The Beatles
The record was re-released with an inoffensive picture of the band sitting on a steamer trunk. Originals are coveted by collectors and can sell for thousands of pounds.
Whitaker – a fan of surrealism – later said the image was a meditation on fame and an attempt to shake up the band’s image, inspired by a dream ‘about The Beatles being ripped to shreds by all these young girls when they came out of a stadium’.
‘All over the world I’d watched people worshipping them like idols, like gods. I was simply trying to show the Beatles were flesh and blood,’ he later revealed.
Born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire in 1939, Whitaker emigrated to Australia in his early 20s and was working as a photographer in Melbourne when The Beatles visited the country in 1964.
He was assigned to photograph manager Brian Epstein for the Jewish News. Epstein was so impressed with the resulting image of himself adorned with peacock feathers that he offered Whitaker a job as staff photographer for his company, NEMS.
The job involved photographing Merseybeat acts including Cilla Black and Gerry And The Pacemakers for more than two years at a time when British popular music was dominating the charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
But the highlight of the contract was to cover The Beatles – onstage, backstage, in planes and hotel rooms and all manner of locations. He was commissioned to work on the band’s final world tour in 1966 and took the pictures used on the collage-style cover of the Revolver album.
Different viewpoint: John Lennon pictured backstage in Japan in 1966. The Beatles enjoyed working with Whitaker because of his unorthodox, experimental approach to photography
Light moment: Ringo Starr relaxes at a hotel in Germany
After parting company with The Beatles, Whitaker photographed Rolling Stone lead singer Mick Jagger on the sets of the films Performance and Ned Kelly, helped create the psychedelic cover for Cream’s Disraeli Gears album cover, and worked on the influential underground magazine Oz.
Increasingly wary of being pigeonholed as a pop photographer, Whitaker later moved into news, covering the Vietnam War and other conflicts for publications including Time and Life. He also spent time photographing his artistic hero, Salvador Dali.
Portrait of the artists: Another image of the Fab Four taken by Whitaker
Rising star: Whitaker was also asked to photograph other pop stars during the 1960s. Here a young Cilla Black poses for the camera
In the 1970s he moved to the English countryside, where he farmed and raised cattle.
Whitaker compiled several books of his Beatles photographs, including The Unseen Beatles and Eight Days A Week.
He is survived by his wife, Sue, and three children.
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