Word: ibsenism
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...went on for years-every time Bernard Shaw put on a new play, British critics said it showed the influence of Ibsen, or Nietzsche, or Schopenhauer, or some other subversive foreigner. "I confess," cried Shaw (in 1906), "there is something flattering in this simple faith in my accomplishment as a linguist and my erudition as a philosopher." But it was high time, he said, for him to scotch this "unpatriotic habit" by setting the critics straight...
...fond backward look at the Millers, who are struggling with big & little family crises during an old-fashioned Fourth of July. Most of the trouble is started by son Richard (Mickey Rooney), a sensitive high-school senior who reads such radical thinkers as Shaw, Wilde and Ibsen. After innocently quoting a few of Swinburne's riper lines in a letter to his best girl, Richard is forbidden to see her again. Heartbroken, he vows to burn himself out in wild debauchery, settles for two sloe-gin fizzes with a local café dancer (Marilyn Maxwell...
...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...
...actors, in their daylight hours, follow the more respectable pursuits of the business and household world, emerging at night under the warm magic of the footlights into quite different creatures. During the past eight seasons the Tributary has introduced many spectators to little-known plays of Barrie, O'Neill, Ibsen, Shaw, and even Shakespeare...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean, with Ibsen Girl Eva Le Gallienne...