Word: shavianly
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...take Paul Barstow (the new Howard Hallam), a morose and lanky bird of prey, who is somehow at once the hangingest judge in England and--the proper Shavian combination--a silly old fool.] Sir Howard, naturally, is one of Lady Cicely's first successful take-over bids, and Barstow succumbs with the proper air of well-bred petulance. Then there's Robert Chapman, who, as Captain Hamlin Kearney (an American naval officer devised to fill up the last act), suffers such an astounding sea change as to be almost unrecognizable. Kearney is the last of Lady C's successes...
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...