Word: shavianly
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...seven years ago Oscar Wilde, in his play Lady Winder mere's Fan, said: "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst, the last is areal tragedy." Behind several Shavian faces is the laughing ghost of Oscar Wilde...
...under her jester's mask of giggles, Edie is a changed girl. In that instant of discovery she drops her girlhood like an old pinafore and turns like a flash into a Shavian woman in love-absorbed, intense, sole-heartedly set on the capture of her own beloved, Charley Raunce...
This mild Shavian spoof (recorded 21 years ago when Shaw was only 71) was broadcast in Manhattan over WNEW's A Treasury of the Spoken Word (Wed. 9 p.m.). Sponsored by the New York Public Library and produced by WNEW's Jack Grogan, who calls it a "literary disk-jockey show," the Spoken Word has brought its listeners the voices of such diverse personalities as Gandhi, Coolidge, Teddy Roosevelt, Cardinal Spellman, Bing Crosby (who gave a reading of The Star-Spangled Banner...
Ultimate Discoveries. No longer driven by the goad of poor gentility, Millionaire Shaw is as ready as any tycoon to bemoan the woes of being wealthy. In his conversations with Neighbor Winsten, the Shavian past & present unroll like an endless, multicolored ribbon...
Father Shaw's notes on the Shavian infancy are included in George Bernard's own latest book, bits & pieces of autobiography called Sixteen Self Sketches. In Days With Bernard Shaw, Stephen Winsten, a writer and lecturer who lives next door to Shaw in Hertfordshire, gives an excellent record of their neighborly conversations over recent years. Fabian Essays, written 60 years ago by Shaw, Sidney Webb and others (and now re-issued with a new essay by Shaw himself) links up the years between. There is little of Shaw the playwright in these books, but much of Shaw...