Word: shavianly
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Developed by Sir James Pitman, a Conservative M.P. and grandson of shorthand's Sir Isaac, the Initial Teaching Alphabet is no Shavian attempt to supersede the regular alphabet. Strictly a teaching tool, it aims to overcome the disparity between the sounds that English-speaking tots know in their heads and the symbols they see on the page. In essence, the child confronts a decoding problem. Unhappily, the code is crazy. The 40-odd phonemes (distinct sound units) of English are spelled in 2,000 different ways, and the letters vary bafflingly in their capital, lower case, printed and handwritten...
...Bugger off," shouted Bogarde, misunderstanding his father's Shavian...
This excellent new novel embodies Newby's view that most men create their own "heaven" or "hell" here on earth. It also toys with the Shavian paradox that a terrestrial hell can be far more habitable than a terrestrial heaven. Not least among the compensations, Owen reflects after telling all to Sybil, is that "they were talking about something real for once...
Marco Millions is O'Neill's most Shavian play, Though imbued with much poetic philosophizing, it is nonetheless peppered with brilliant epigrams and witty repartee. For all its use of the historical Marco Polo and exotic sites in medieval Venice, Persia, India, Mongolia and Cathay, there is no mistaking that the target of this epic satire was the materialistic and acquisitive American businessman-a creature that O'Neill also examined in Desire Under the Elms, The Great God Brown, and Long Day's Journey Into Night, and one that still confronts us on every side, in a more notoriously tired...
After two unrewarding struggles to revive mediocre plays, the Harvard Summer Players have finally brought to the Main Stage a play of significance and value. And while not always successful in meeting the challenge of Shavian dialogue, they have succeeded in producing a Man and Superman that is often very funny, if not always thoughtful...