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There is some truth in Bernard Shaw's contention that it seems "a farcical comedy of the seventies, not performed at the time, because it was too witty and too decent," but it has, too, a strong kinship with the insincere and trivial, but highly amusing, social comedies of the Restoration. Altogether, it is a genial, if shallow exposition of Wilde's philosophy, a philosophy in which literature is governed by style and not ideas, and life by taste rather than ideals...
Aside from an occasional bad fishing season or a poor crop year, the village's troubles are the complications of close kinship. Parents, giving wedding receptions or welcome-home parties for returning servicemen (three returned last week), are eternally flustered about which relatives to invite, which to ignore...
Says Harvard's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, William Ernest Hocking (Contemporary Science and the Idea of God) in his foreword: "May this majestic poem find its way into the familiar literary friendship of many readers, and contribute to the sense of spiritual kinship with the most gifted people of Asia, akin to us both in blood and language...
...Bastille Day they simply announced that if any Frenchman who committed sabotage or attacked Germans did not surrender within ten days, they would execute his grandfather, father, brothers, brothers-in-law and cousins (over 18). They added that they would send all women of the same degrees of kinship into hard labor, all children to reform schools...
...part of any hobby, of course, and as anyone with a hobby will attest, a bond of fellowship is at once created. The two of you can sit up all night listening to records and comparing tastes, arguing as often as you agree. And usually that first feeling of kinship carries over when, after several hours, you begin to talk about something else...