Word: pygmalion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aching for the Ideal, loathsomeness wanting to be loved, unknown fear reaching up to touch or break our hearts. He is every teacher who fell in love with a beautiful student, every middle-aged man who has a star-struck boy's swoony soul. He is kin to Pygmalion, Cyrano, Quasimodo, Dracula, the Elephant Man and King Kong -- artists isolated in their genius, Beasts pining for Beauty...
There is nothing more heartbreaking than to see good Shaw done badly. It is not difficult to concoct frothy entertainment from, say, Pygmalion or Misalliance, but Heartbreak House can so easily fall apart in the hands of a less than ideal production--as it does in this American Repertory Theatre rendition...
...easy to see foreshadowings of Major Barbara and Pygmalion in this play. It deals with the exploitation of the poor and the mind-set of a middle class which believes that it is "powerless to alter the state of society," and so will not even...
...this would-be Pygmalion is teaching JL's works in Abu Dhabi, where the college was hoping for classes on Dickens or Galsworthy. In a final attempt at revenge, he tries his own hand at fiction but cannot find "the gadget that makes it all work, the crystal, the chip, the formula . . ." Five synonyms later, he desists. The trick...