Word: talkfest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juan in Hell. Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton & Co. turning Shaw's most dazzling talkfest into the season's most delightful theater (TIME...
...There are good reasons for omitting it: it is over two hours long, and it is merely tossed into the play. But there are far better reasons for performing it, at least by itself: it is not only the finest thing in Man and Superman, but the most brilliant talkfest, the most glittering dialectical floor show of modern times. And underneath all its riot of paradoxes it contains Playwright Shaw's most serious philosophical beliefs...
...Righteousness. Until last June the U.N., like the League of Nations before it, often seemed more a dawdling talkfest than a decisive weight in world affairs. Then it met the shock of aggression, as the League had never done. Once more excited to battle, septuagenarian Austin went forth to smite...