Word: shaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sings pep talks at him like To Make the Boy a Man and I Am Going to Love (the Man You're Going to Be). But somehow he never seems to become quite the man that she is. She dominates the action, partly because playgoers cannot really forget Shaw's Saint Joan, though nothing, unfortunately, has been borrowed from G.B.S...
...feed humans? In the long run, is the consumption of 10 Ibs. of grain to produce 1 Ib. of beef an equitable or sensible ratio? Is the meatless meal a fashion, an ideal or a specter? These were once the narrow concerns of Victorian freethinkers like George Bernard Shaw or of pop nutritionists like Adelle Davis. But suddenly, in many societies, the question of a high-protein vegetable diet has be come literally a matter of life and death...
...these men participate in what has become the world's fastest-growing business?the arms trade. The contracts they sign in one day could easily exceed a lifetime of sales made by the "merchants of death" of an earlier era, immortalized in Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw's Undershaft, whose credo was "to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles ... to Capitalist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, faiths...
This suggests a chief flaw in the movie, the lack of serious characters, besides Nick, on whom Mabel's madness can be registered. Both mothers-in-law are one-dimensional, and I'm not sure it's in the nature of mothers-in-law to be to. Eddie Shaw is unbelievably silly as the Jewish doctor who tries to intercode between Mabel and Nick. Mabel's father appears at the dinner to welcome his daughter back from the anylum and we find that her obsession with the children is supplemented by a heavy attachment to him--but the idea...
...SOCIAL MOBILITY: The charm of Britain has always been the ease with which one can move into the middle class. It has never been simply a matter of income, but of a whole attitude to life, a will to take responsibility for oneself-the middle-class morality that Shaw despised so much. We need those who are going to save money, who are going to do things for themselves...