Word: pygmalion
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...couple were devoted to scholarship, not politics. In the early 1950s, Yang declined a prestigious offer to translate Chairman Mao's works into English, "much preferring to translate classical Chinese literature instead," he wrote in his 2002 autobiography, White Tiger. Yang translated works including The Odyssey and Pygmalion into Chinese, and he and his wife collaborated on rendering selections from Sima Qian's Records of the Historian and stories by the 20th century writer Lu Xun into English...
George Bernard Shaw understood that principle perfectly when he penned his 1916 play Pygmalion: His street-urchin heroine Eliza Doolittle is unable to better her economic and social situation because her heavy cockney accent prevents her from being hired in a genteel flower shop. She’s doomed to remain a “draggle-tailed guttersnipe” until a phoneticist sweeps in, fairy-godmother-like, to teach her a proper English accent...
...place, strangers think I'll look down on them - so they get the boot in first. "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him," wrote Irishman George Bernard Shaw in the preface to Pygmalion, the play that became My Fair Lady. In England, the way you say "oh" or "oo" can make you one of the gang - or the designated buffoon. We're at King Street College in west London, where Hughes, who has an M.A. from the Central School of Speech and Drama, coaches native and non-native...
Jazz musicians have taken inspiration from the classics before, but surely songwriter-singer-pianist Barber is the first to base a song cycle on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Her Pygmalion is sweetly yearning, her Persephone sexy over a Latin beat. In the hard-edged Whiteworld/Oedipus, the Greek King is an arrogant white imperialist in the Third World. These intricate, ruminative works are a long way from the blues in B flat--and they're worth the stretch...
...left to go home to England, I received a phone call from a gentleman who said he was the manager for the creative team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. He told me that the duo was creating a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion...