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...Philomena, ringing a huge bell whenever the couple begin a furtive smooch. Marriage only makes things worse-until one day Carney spies a traumatic headline. Roaring drunk, he announces to the old crone that the Pope has quashed the cult of St. Philomena. Carney deposes a statue of the saint from its altar, insults his wife, and climbs into bed with his mother-in-law. Alas, the old lady soon finds a surrogate saint, the daughter is shocked and the carpenter is left to grow old disgracefully belowstairs...
...often touched on religion elsewhere, he examined it in detail on the stage three times in his career. The first result was The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1909), a religious tract in the form of a romantic melodrama laid in our own Wild West. The third was Saint Joan (1923), not only Shaw's greatest play but also one of the consummate creative achievements of the twentieth century...
...spokesman. In his Postscript, Shaw calls her "a clever and fearless freethinker." She is one of his huge gallery of extraordinary women--a group unsurpassed by any other twentieth-century dramatist. Lavinia falls into the category of those persons passionately driven by con-science and commitment--like his Saint Joan, his Major Barbara, his Vivie (in Mrs. Warren's Profession), and his Lina (in Misalliance...
...unkind observers say it would resemble a graveyard, if only it were a little livelier. The thought of public violence in Zurich is utterly improbable. Yet last week there were student riots right in downtown Zurich- and they were just as violent as anything seen recently on the Boulevard Saint-Germain or on the Columbia University campus...
After he became Premier, Pompidou and his bubbly wife, Claude, increasingly gave up fancy-dress parties at the Rothschild chateau southeast of Paris and summers with the literati in Saint-Tropez. Instead, for the past two years, the Pompidous have rented a chateau in Brittany, where the water is more bracing. They still spend weekends, however, at their country home at Orvilliers outside Paris or their farm at Cajarc in the south of France. Pompidou reads and tends his rosebushes, his wife practices her horsemanship. In the city, they occasionally go to first nights at the theater and constantly browse...