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...progress, old biases die hard. Says Carolyn Shaw Bell, a Wellesley College economics professor and a prime mover in the drive to place more women in important economic positions: "There is a clear indication of change at some levels, but the advancement of women has to be pushed if it is to continue...
Intellectually speaking, G.B.S. was a great pass receiver. When astrodomed quarterbacks like Ibsen, Nietzsche, Darwin and Marx rifled ideas through the air, Shaw would snatch them and race down the field for dramatic touchdowns, spouting aphorisms and paradoxes as he went...
...Schopenhauer. The glum philosopher held that "egotism is deeply rooted-but the species has a greater claim on the individual than the perishable individuality itself ... The growing inclination of two lovers is really already the will to live of the new individual which they can and desire to produce." Shaw labeled this will of the species the Life Force and gave an old formula an ingenious plot twist-boy meets girl, boy flees girl, girl gets boy. Q.E.D.: the Life Force triumphs again. To this, as a metaphysical dimension, Shaw added a third-act "Don Juan in Hell" sequence...
...revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square theater is not exactly on the rocks, but it is certainly becalmed. One obvious flaw is the casting. Shaw's hero, Jack Tanner (George Grizzard), who doubles as Don Juan, is meant to be a clever and intense young idealist, full of revolutionary ardor. He is in the grip of what Shaw calls a "master passion," and his iconoclastic views are contrasted with those of a fossilized former liberal, Roebuck Ramsden (Richard Woods). Grizzard works hard. But he is visibly too old for the part and lacks the psychic energy...
...Shaw could be divided into four elements, they might be fire, music, mind and rhetoric. The fire and music are quenched in this revival; the mind and rhetoric are unquenchable, as is Shaw's master passion, his abiding love for the English tongue...