Word: shavianly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many famous men have tried to rewrite this verse; none ever persuaded the stubborn English to accept a new one (even after the young U.S. borrowed the tune for America). Last week George Bernard Shaw did another rewrite job. With un-Shavian reverence, but very Shavian unpoeticalness, he wrote...
George Bernard Shaw gave an old-fashioned Shavian interview to a London reporter who asked him, among other things: 1) How can women rid themselves of their many current handicaps? 2) What is the cause of the Briton's patronizing attitude toward women? 3) Should the housewife have an economic status? Shaw's answers: 1) "They are not handicapped. . . . It is men who are handicapped now." 2) "It doesn't exist. Men are abjectly afraid of women, not without reason." 3) "She has it. The country is run by women...
...listened and laughed. It was his wife who made the jokes. This was a true reflection of their life together. Mr. Shaw valued her criticism, knowing it sprang from a genuine love for the arts and a shrewd native wit. She, for her part, was a devoted Shavian. . . . She shirked none of her fancies from youth to old age, and she faced the last of them with anticipation rather than with dread...
...merely another evidence of Shavian delight in biting the hand that feeds him was Shaw's championship of a simpler English. He is now backing a new system of "Universal Pidgin" advanced by Kenneth Littlewood, a 29-year-old Yorkshire munitions worker. In his spare time Littlewood prepared a primer based on the study of Russian, Latin, Greek, French, Welsh, Arabic and Basic English. Unlike Esperanto, Universal Pidgin seldom uses more than two syllables in any word, telescopes these with borrowed syllables to make new words. Sample: "Yon fo gret blu form bel" (Those four great blue flowers...
...regardless of whether you agree with Shaw's conclusions, you cannot deny that it is a picture that will make you think. Aside from the Shavian philosophy, it is undoubtedly one of the best directed, acted, and photographed pictures of the last few years. Wendy Hiller as Major Barbara, Robert Morley as Andrew Underschaft, and a newcomer named Robert Newton as Bill Walker, the tough mug who turns a leaf, all turn in brilliant performances. Here at last is a picture which credits the average movie-goer with more brains than a fourteen-year-old, and even...