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...their patrician comfort depends on a skilled corps of servants. Eaton Place may be home to the Bellamys, but it belongs to their servants: Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Footman Edward and, of course, Rose, whom Actress Jean Marsh has made into the most fetching cockney sparrow since George Bernard Shaw detached a rib called Eliza Doolittle...
...critic (in both senses of "pan") is in fact a latent romanticism. More than his victims can appreciate, he is a genial curmudgeon, teetering on the very edge of hope. He growls partly to keep from being played for a sucker. Macdonald might even be called an American Bernard Shaw, if Shaw had written only prefaces or if Macdonald had written plays. Besides, that is to say, these marvelous little one-act monologues, featuring the persona he made of himself. ·Melvin Maddocks...
...this man's wrenching tale sings of life's pleasures: honest work, the rhythm of seasons, the love of relatives and friends, the stubborn persistence of hope when it should have vanished. The Southern black dialect has chiefly been trivialized through minstrelsy or strained through literate translators. Shaw's unlettered language shames past caricatures; it is a marvel of utility, supple enough to take what the world offers each day and make it new. When he speaks of "the fall of the year," he is not reading from a calendar but describing what he has seen...
...tale has weight because his life and history intersected. Although he stayed behind, Nate Shaw watched the migration of blacks away from the rural South and into the factories and cities of the North. As intimately as anybody has, he tells why they left. But All God's Dangers is most valuable for its picture of pure courage. Knowing he was ridiculed and despised, aware that whites would frustrate his plans, Shaw simply went ahead, surrounded by a shell of pride. He wonders where this grit came from, recognizes that his nature welled up from something deeper than race...
That was not Nate's way. Faulkner's celebrated epitaph for all the blacks in The Sound and the Fury was "They endured." Nate Shaw did more than that...