Word: methuselah
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). Shaw's Back to Methuselah...
...enthusiastic admirer of the Methuselah of literature, I wish to state that never before have I seen such a precise, artistic, literate, intelligent, penetrating, informative, wellrounded, readable, sympathetic yet critical summary of any man's life, character and achievements on two printed pages...
...multifaceted wit of the late George Bernard Shaw often did more to conceal than reveal his deep convictions. But last week a paragraph from his will made it clear where the author of Saint Joan, Heartbreak House and Back to Methuselah stood on the question of religion...
...METHUSELAH is dead. In Shaw goes the last of the Victorian prophets, the last of the long line of young beards who became the great, bearded old gentlemen. Yet, in important ways, Shaw had no connection with the igth Century at all. He was really a man of the 18th Century, closer to Voltaire and Swift than to Marx and Morris. The Anglo-Ireland of 1856, when he was born, was an ossified 18th Century society. It was elegant yet genteel; it was ruled by the blistering aristocratic candor and the simple aristocratic naivety; it was naturally irreverent, as aristocratic...
Simonson, one of the founders of the Theatre Guild, was associated with the group for many years. Among his designs for the Guild now on exhibition are "Back to Methuselah," "Liliom," "The Adding Machine," and "Amphytryon 38." Oenslager is represented by designs for 34 productions, including models for "Life With Mother" and "Born Yesterday...