Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books. There are of course old books which have in their content more or less value for the intellect. And there are old books which fell like lead upon their ago and generation and which by their bindings and beautiful print and wooden illustrations appeal only to the eye. But an object d'art practically the only value of which lies in its use as a test of human muscle must fall in the lowest plane...
...Artist. Gilbert had an eye for the absurd, in government, in the Law, in personalities. He was never tired of mocking the foibles of the England he loved. But in this book he is represented as a sentimentalist gone wrong. He himself was fonder of his serious comedies than of his triumphant excursions into topsy-turvydom. He was never fully aware of the peculiar quality of his own genius. Up to the end, he rebelled against the critics who, he felt, were forcing him to don the cap and bells, which became him so well...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...explain significances. He composed a ponderous epilogue bringing the characters together in a dream which drifted down the centuries. They settled the merits of martyrdom and all but settled the play. Possibly Shaw preferred to have his audience leave the theatre with wrinkled brow rather than glistening eye. Possibly he deliberately stepped on his climax because he is Shaw and defies the rules...
...Vienna, Prof. Maximilian Langster, famed mesmerist, advertised that he would perform feats of hypnotism "hitherto unattempted." A "big crowd" marched to his theatre. There a policeman smilingly agreed to submit to Langster's eye. Having hypnotized him, the professor handed the policeman a stick, said: "This is a revolver. Shoot!" In a daze the policeman threw away the stick, seized his own revolver, shot three of the audience. He then leaped from the stage, attacked the spectators, seized several, herded them together, told them they were under arrest, drove them before him to the police station...