Word: shavians
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...highly Shavian Don Juan denounces Hell for just that reason: it is no proper place for man, for the one animal with brains. And what, sneers Satan, has man done with his precious brains...
Juan is even more Shavian about woman than about man. He insists that he kept running off not through boredom after possessing them, but through fear of being possessed. Shaw's Juan is nine parts Puritan to one part libertine, and for him Heaven means hard work, not golden harps. There the Life Force, that instrument of man's purposeful striving, will carry him higher & higher, convert him into superman. Shaw's Heaven, far from being a blissful goal, would seem a mere way station on the road to perfection-as his Life Force, magnificent so long...
Gregory next proposed forming a drama quartet that would act as well as read, and Laughton seized on the idea as an effective way to present his favorite piece of Shavian writing. When Laughton applied for Shaw's permission (and terms), the old man sounded almost as skeptical as the Hollywood agent had been. "The Hell scene is such a queer business," he wrote, "that I can't advise you to experiment with it, but I should certainly like...
...Groggle is the average U.S. male as drawn and quartered by a pair of onetime Vassar girls, Jane Whitbread and Vivian Cadden. Having cribbed their title, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Women, from a late, great male named Bernard Shaw,-Whitbread & Cadden also show glints of the Shavian gift for entertaining polemics...
...last been vindicated, and will in the end be canonized. "Now tell me," Joan asks amid the general rejoicing, "shall I . . . come back to you a living woman?" Horrified and appalled, her auditors can only mumble and fumble and slink away. It is a scene of lively Shavian comedy, but embedded in it is bitter realistic tragedy, an awareness that the Joans are glorified much less for being great than for being so conveniently dead...