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This posed a stickler for Shaw's trusted friend, Producer Gabriel (Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra) Pascal, who had to stretch the two-acter, Androcles and the Lion, to feature length. Pascal finally wangled a grudging O.K. from the trustees of Shaw's estate to raise the alteration rate to 25%, and fattened up the script with lines borrowed from Shaw's own preface. With the biggest barrier hurdled, Androcles was only two weeks behind schedule at RKO last week...
Those things which all men hold in common are beginning to outweigh enormously those things which separate them. That was not new to Goethe or Pascal or Burke; but in this sense it is astonishingly new to many of my own generation. My young friends in Cambridge have shown me over and over again that to them it is as simple as breathing that all societies are but variants of one another, that somehow all wars from now on are civil wars and the human adventure is much the same in all times and all places...
Those things which all men hold in common are beginning to outweigh enormously those things which separate them. That was not new to Goethe or Pascal or Burke; but in this sense it is astonishingly new to many of my own generation. My young friends in Cambridge have shown me over and over again that to them it is as simple as breathing that all societies are but variants of one another, that somehow all wars from now on are civil wars and the human adventure is much the same in all times and all places...
...Pleasure of Disgust. The Desert of Love was one of the last of François Mauriac's "unregenerate" novels. A year after his cry that "Christianity makes no allowance for the flesh," he underwent deep conversion. He approvingly quoted Pascal: "What pleasure is greater than being disgusted with pleasure...
...stories that make up the bulk of Cast a Cold Eye (the remainder consists of New Yorkerized skeins of personal history), is a large bedful of just such dim petunias, wherein every muted "Ah!" suggests hoarse response to a throat specialist rather than the valid sound made by a Pascal truth-seeker...