Word: shavianly
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...plays. One reason may be that it contains almost nothing to weigh it down. It is Shaw on a holiday. His account of how a phonetics expert transforms a Cockney flower girl into the likes of a duchess is first & foremost good fun. It is a highly satirical, wryly Shavian fairy tale-but a fairy tale for all that...
...over the magazine. "I was comforted," said young Yeats, after Henley had laid a heavy pencil on his lyrics, "by my belief that [he] also rewrote Kipling." It was "exceedingly characteristic" of Henley, said George Bernard Shaw, to be deeply puzzled by Shaw's fury when a Shavian article in praise of Mozart was "edited" by Henley into a savage attack on Wagner...
...versatile career has included such checkered roles as Elizebeth Barrett Browning, St. Joan, Juliet, and the lead in "Bill of Divorcement," her first prominent part. Although "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" extended to 900 performances, Miss Cornell's favorites are Shavian and Shakespearian roles. As she has no other plans beyond her current production, she may perform "The Barretts" again for a year's run in army camps. Her husband, director Guthrie McClintic, who directed "Lovers and Friends," co-decides with her in the selection of all her manuscripts, she revealed...
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...