Word: eliza
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...less content with the four young people. Faye Dunaway's Hypatia Tarleton (the Young Thing) shouts and mouthes her lines magnificently--rather like the tutored Eliza Doolittle. But a shout seems to be the limit of Miss Dunaway's acting capabilities, and she is less than arch, more that dull. As her original suitor, Jere Whiting is determinedly effeminate (he can shout, too); Robert Moulthrop, her eventual choice, must be a stout fellow, but his Etonian ways do not convince. The fourth one, William Gordy, Hypatia's brother, barks gruffy; he is not a little tedious...
...claims remote descent from Ireland's famed Gunning sisters, Maria and Eliza beth, who went to London 200 years ago and made some pretty fair catches themselves: Maria hooked the Earl of Coventry; Elizabeth got the Duke of Hamilton and later the Duke of Argyll...
...will build Argentina's first petrochemical plants to produce synthetic rubber and industrial chemicals. In many Latin lands, such action would have brought out the mobs to smash windows and shout "Yankee, no!" In Argentina, conditioned by three years of watching Frondizi leap from crisis to crisis like Eliza crossing the ice, there was no visible reaction...
...ancient myth Pygmalion breathes life into his statue Galatea through love. It was typical of Bernard Shaw, one of the last of the great 19th century rationalist optimists, that in his Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle into existence. Give Shaw an actress, a breed he regarded as intrinsically brainless, and the sage would begin playing post office, or frequently postcard. Absence definitely made Shaw's heart grow fonder, and for added emotional insurance the women were al ways married, as was he. The two most celebrated of these epistolary romances involved Mrs. Pat Campbell and Ellen Terry...
...letters show that Molly Bawn bewitched, bothered, and bewildered Shaw, but they do not wholly show why. He resisted her coquetry, but he could not resist her ignorance, the last temptation of the learned. His mind rushed in to fill that mental vacuum. That is why the Eliza Doolittles of this world are always snaring the Professor Higginses...