Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dalmatian-born in 342, St. Jerome became a man of letters (Greek and Latin) in Rome, took ship for Antioch. There he dreamed that he was brought before the judgment seat of Christ and ordered to identify himself. He said that he was a Christian, but this was denied: "Thou liest. Thou art a Ciceronian, for where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also." Deeply troubled by the dream, Jerome re tired into the desert of Calchis for four long years of mys tic solitude. On his return, he learned Hebrew and then devoted the main energies...
...playing the Calliope and Nietzsche selling peanuts in the reserved seats," runs a paltry three hours and fifteen minutes in its deft and buoyant revival by the Group 20 Players. In order to make this enormous masterwork fit such a brief compass, the usual expedient is to cut the dream scene in hell, a glorious ideological quartet for voices, specifically designed by the author as a detachable interlude. The reigning powers at Group 20 have decided to leave in the hell scene, and to take in compensation frequent cuts and tucks and darts and snatches throughout the play, which necessarily...
...suggestion by the critic A. B. Walkley that Shaw write a play about Don Juan. The old story of the Spanish libertine and defier of God had for Shaw two aspects, the sexual and the philosophical. These produced, or at least informed, respectively, the play and the dream-scene within it, which together justify the subtitle of Man and Superman, "a Comedy and a Philosophy." (This is not to say, of course, that the main play lacks philosophy or the interlude lacks comedy. Shaw's peculiar gift is his ability to fuse...
...wife's, he gave up sex forever, and the two of them dwelt together, chaste and childless, for the rest of their days--in spite, presumably, of the demands of the Life Force that they do their bit towards breeding the race. As the Devil in the dream scene of Man and Superman says about the Life Force, "it is the most resistible thing in the world for a person of any character...
That McDonald's dream would not become reality was a measure of how badly he had misjudged the temper of the times -and how well it had been judged by Roger Blough...