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...anachronisms are, in fact, an intentional part of Shaw's "Lesson." For him, the present was the past. Shaw put it explicitly in a second prologue that he wrote in 1912 in the form of a sermon delivered by the god Ra to the audience: "Men twenty centuries ago were already just such as you, and spoke and lived as ye speak and live, no worse and no better, no wiser and no sillier." And in a postscriptal Note to the play Shaw said, "The notion that there has been any ... Progress since Caesar's time ... is too absurd...
What Rabb cannot be forgiven is his periodic snipping of the text and his wholesale excision of the Prologue scene. The resulting running-time is barely more than two hours--far below maximum tolerance. The fact that Shaw wrote an alternative Prologue-sermon thirteen years later does not vitiate the importance of the original Prologue...
Theological Fossil. On the theory that getting people talking about the church is a big advantage over the customary apathy, Stockwood has encouraged dissent and nonconformity among his 600 clergymen. In a sermon on the existing moral code at Southwark Cathedral last March, his canon librarian, the Rev. Douglas Rhymes, preached that Christ never suggested that "marriage is the only possible occasion of any expression of physical relationship," and charged on to say that "much of the prejudice against homosexuality is on the ground that it is unnatural-but for whom? Certainly not for the homosexual...
...apparently intended to deliver a little sermon to the American Negro militants of the spring 1963 revolution, on the need not only to "take" but to "deserve" their place in this society. You mention that Southern and Northern whites have pointed to the high rate of crime and illegitimacy among Negroes, and seem to imply that the Negro has not wholly justified "acceptance" into the mainstream of American life because of his questionable morality. As a thinking person, I take exception to this vicious and dangerous insinuation. As a Negro, I take offense...
...sophisticated theological works in which the oral tradition preserved by Christ's early disciples was considerably expanded. This oral tradition consisted almost exclusively of Jesus' sayings; thus his actions as recounted in the Gospels, and the geographical circumstances of his words-for example, the mountain of the Sermon on the Mount-were almost certainly the additions, based on extrapolation or invention, of a later tradition or of the Evangelists...