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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shotover is a crazy old man of eighty-eight, drunken and self-confessedly futile, yet hedged about, like one of Yeats' Lear-like old men, with an almost sinister magnificence. His crews believe that "he sold himself to the devil in Zanzibar, and can divine water, spot gold, explode a cartridge in your pocket with a glance of his eye, and see the truth hidden in the heart of men." Made up with a white beard in a wretchedly unsuccessful attempt to look like G.B.S., "Mr. Evans' Captain," as A. E. Watts acutely notices in the Traveler, "is a cute...
Shotover's son-in-law Hector is another of Shaw's Chinese-puzzle characters, whose identity opens up like a box to reveal a new one underneath, leaving him a paradox that is never resolved. One of his personae is that of the romantic hero, with a moustache "like a bronze candlestick" and a general air of being a cross between the Prisoner of Zenda and Henry V. Hector is also a boaster and a liar and his wife's lapdog, but he is so totally footling and gormless in Dennis Price's portrayal that his cries of agony...
Jimmy is a furious, destructive, viciously witty and deeply troubled young man (rather like Hamlet), with few concessions made to the sensibilities of a family audience; and yet (again like Hamlet) he elicits a paradoxical sympathy and respect. His subtle three-cornered relationship with his wife Alison and their friend Cliff is still credible and touching, though much less deeply probed than in the play...
...shortcomings as well as Jimmy's, but this is never embodied dramatically: she appears as a worn, long-suffering patsy for Jimmy's tirades, with no vices or bitcheries to balance his, and no problems except Jimmy. In their brief moments of loving communion, Mr. and Mrs. Porter like to pretend that he is a jolly super bear and she a bushy-tailed squirrel--an odd and embarrassing touch of A. A. Milne...
Occasionally (although not always at 10 o'clock) everybody thinks about society. For those whose time is now, there is Social Relations 180, Social Pathology and Social Control (Emerson H). Here, T.M. Mills considers delinquency, suicide and the like--their cause and their cure. And to the student whose ultimate concern is differently oriented, Professor Fleming presents History 167, the History of Science in America (Harvard 2). The course begins tamely, with Seventeenth Century developments, and mushrooms into the present...