Word: shavians
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...listened and laughed. It was his wife who made the jokes. This was a true reflection of their life together. Mr. Shaw valued her criticism, knowing it sprang from a genuine love for the arts and a shrewd native wit. She, for her part, was a devoted Shavian. . . . She shirked none of her fancies from youth to old age, and she faced the last of them with anticipation rather than with dread...
...merely another evidence of Shavian delight in biting the hand that feeds him was Shaw's championship of a simpler English. He is now backing a new system of "Universal Pidgin" advanced by Kenneth Littlewood, a 29-year-old Yorkshire munitions worker. In his spare time Littlewood prepared a primer based on the study of Russian, Latin, Greek, French, Welsh, Arabic and Basic English. Unlike Esperanto, Universal Pidgin seldom uses more than two syllables in any word, telescopes these with borrowed syllables to make new words. Sample: "Yon fo gret blu form bel" (Those four great blue flowers...
...regardless of whether you agree with Shaw's conclusions, you cannot deny that it is a picture that will make you think. Aside from the Shavian philosophy, it is undoubtedly one of the best directed, acted, and photographed pictures of the last few years. Wendy Hiller as Major Barbara, Robert Morley as Andrew Underschaft, and a newcomer named Robert Newton as Bill Walker, the tough mug who turns a leaf, all turn in brilliant performances. Here at last is a picture which credits the average movie-goer with more brains than a fourteen-year-old, and even...
Recently the Committee became a part of still another Commission for the study of English. But it is still growing and knows that there need be no fear of the future, since the group has Bernard Shaw's word for it that Basic English versions of Shavian masterpieces surpass the originals in many places...
...play is typically Shavian, marked by his brilliant dialogue, his sardonic philosophy, and a unique ending. The cast is excellent, and only a great actress like Katharine Cornell could outshine it. Even though her role is small, she carries the burden of the play, while Shaw laughs gaily at the world and the audience laughs with...