Word: shavianly
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...Devil's Disciple will star James Valentine, an experienced Shavian actor, in the lead role of General "Johnny" Burgoyne. Valentine has appeared in the show twice before--in two different roles--so he should know what he's doing...
...pivotal center of the comedy is S Millamant, as iridescent a creature as a g dramatist ever pinned on paper. She is almost a pre-Shavian heroine, a kind of ' sexier cousin to Shaw's Major Barbara. Like Barbara, she is independent in mind and as spirited as a thoroughbred. Unlike Barbara, Millamant is a complete coquette, full of feminine witchcraft. She adores the marital chase but is eminently dubious about its outcome. She fears she "may dwindle into a wife." She faces marriage like a firing squad, but with her eyes open...
...reticent in talking about things in his country's recent history, but he is. He was in India when last summer's state of emergency was promulgated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Although Haldipur says he doesn't like labels, he describes himself as a Fabian Socialist--a Shavian type of belief which blends the benefits of elite technocracy, democratic liberties, and collective ownership--who is majoring in development economics because he wants to go back to his country and help in solving its long-range troubles. But on the current situation he only smiles gently and declines comment...
...things--castles, huts--anything we could use. They say children who play war grow up peaceful." Peter is the agitator of the lot, an anarchist who feeds to a begging hippie shrimp that customers, as the disgusted workers snarl, "pay good money--$2.85 a pound--for." He echoes a Shavian respect for "the able-minded, able-bodied pauper," who refuses to squelch his imagination in the ranks of unskilled labor...
What ensues is not outrage, vituperation or divorce, but smug Shavian homilies on the double standard and the right of women to economic self-determination. Incontestable Constance takes a job as an interior decorator and decamps for a six-week fling with an ardent old beau...