Word: fabian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...condoned, however, as Freedman's decision to dispense with Fabian and give all of Fabian's lines to Feste. This upsets the balance of roles, and undermines Feste's relative neutrality. It is true that Fabian is one of the hardest of Shakespeare's sizeable roles for an actor to endow with individuality; but fusing it with another is not the way to deal with the problem...
DIED. Robert Fabian, 77, legendary British detective who until 1949 headed Scotland Yard's Flying Squad; in Epsom, Surrey, England. Fabian said that to beat a crook one had to follow the "reasonings of his warped mind," but his findings were as often the result of tenacious 18-hour-a-day investigations. In his most famous case, the Alec de Antiquis murder in 1947, he traced the killers through a ticket sewn in the lining of a filthy raincoat. After his retirement, he lectured and wrote Fabian of the Yard. His book and sleuthing inspired movie plots...
...18th century portraitist was so prolific that up to 50 of his paintings of Washington may be around. Stuart also had plenty of imitators. Many people stumble across a painting of Washington and dream of a Stuart bonanza. Says Monroe Fabian, an associate curator at the National Portrait Gallery: "The paintings come in here in brown paper bags and boxes. People cart them in from halfway across the country." A genuine full-length Stuart, he adds, would be worth "somewhere in the seven-figure range...
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw's bitter, biting parody of this social philanthropy, exposes its futile results. Shaw, a leading Fabian socialist of his day, believed that it was not the workers but the middle class that needed to be changed, not suddenly but through a "gradual" permeation of socialist ideas and institutions in their capitalist midsts. His dubious hero in Pygmalion is exactly the kind of man who would not be receptive to tactics such as these: a leading London phoneticist determined to translate a flower girl into a "duchess" so effectively that, he wagers, no one will be able...
...India, would also be reticent in talking about things in his country's recent history, but he is. He was in India when last summer's state of emergency was promulgated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Although Haldipur says he doesn't like labels, he describes himself as a Fabian Socialist--a Shavian type of belief which blends the benefits of elite technocracy, democratic liberties, and collective ownership--who is majoring in development economics because he wants to go back to his country and help in solving its long-range troubles. But on the current situation he only smiles gently...