Word: shavianly
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Last week gabby old George Bernard Shaw tripped through the U. S. Southwest leaving columns of commonplace impertinences in his wake. Simultaneously a 13-year-old Shavian masterwork made thrilling news for Manhattan playgoers when Katharine Cornell revived Saint Joan...
...Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings he has collected from various hiding places 14 Shavian pieces, dating as far back as 1885. Latest and largest item in the collection is The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (published separately in 1933). Shaworshipers who have grown old along with their idol will welcome reverently these half-forgotten fragments; to neo-Shavians the book will have a more archeological interest. One lengthy dramatic dialog, originally intended as a part of Back to Methuselah, has never before been published, contains a masterly caricature of Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, under...
...Death) sponsored by the Book-of-the-Month Club. The Senate has authorized an investigation of U. S. arms manufacturers. Old George Bernard Shaw might well have said: "I started it." His play, Major Barbara (1905) contained the first popular warning against munitions makers but, like many another Shavian admonition, was taken as a joke...
Shaw then proceeded to a disquisition, along orthodox Shavian lines, on political economy in the U. S. He talked for 100 minutes-40 minutes longer than expected -and some statistician counted his words at 16,345. Occasionally he was obliged to arouse his audience with such prods as: "I notice that you receive me coldly...
...joining him. Just over a wall Shaw was cultivating in his own hole. An African courtship followed and the heroine settles down with the author of the book. The cultivating continues as before. Shaw places Christ, Mohammed, and Voltaire unmistakably on his own level, but this is naturally Shavian. He plays the part of the here while the part of the villain is left to Jehovah...