Word: shavianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge, Mass., Loeb Drama Center: Captain Brassbound's Conversion, a lesser comedy by Bernard Shaw, sends one of his typical, indomitable heroines and a very domitable romantic rebel on a Shavian Road to Morocco...
Trying desperately to be Shavian, Romulus in the end rewards the playgoer with a wispy heap of intellectual shavings...
...over the years, his acerbic judgments have worn remarkably well-a consequence, explained Shaw, of the fact that "G.B.S. never commits himself on a musical subject until he knows at least six times as much about it as you do." In a fascinating and previously uncollected selection of Shavian criticism' (How to Become a Musical Critic; Hill & Wang; $5), readers can once more watch G.B.S. committing himself - informed, passionate, and armed with annihilating invective...
...took sick last fall.) "Shaw's life," Mankiewicz explained, "is full of letters to naive young girls, instructing them in the ways of the world. He wrote Caesar and Cleopatra as if he'd come upon Cleopatra himself in that pile of rocks. The play is a Shavian dream of intellectual omnipotence, but it has nothing to do with Caesar or Cleopatra...
...very much in charge of things. "If I were having a frontal lobotomy," she says, "I'd tell them how to do it, like 'try going in through the ear.' '' Possibly if Bernard Shaw had known American women better, he might have invented Jean Kerr. Like almost all Shavian heroines, she is articulate, cheerful, casually domineering, competent, simple ?a bit of the Earth Mother whom Shaw was forever recreating...