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How can you write a play of which the ideas are so significant that they will make the critic of The Times sit up in his stall and at the same time induce the shop - girl in the gallery to forget the young man ...
How can you write a play of which the ideas are so significant that they will make the critic of The Times sit up in his stall and at the same time induce the shop - girl in the gallery to forget the young man ...
Page 133
Shaw's ideas were expressed with great vivacity . They could only have surprised be- cause the intellectual capacity of the audience was inconsiderable . They surprise no longer ; indeed , the young tend to look on them now as ...
Shaw's ideas were expressed with great vivacity . They could only have surprised be- cause the intellectual capacity of the audience was inconsiderable . They surprise no longer ; indeed , the young tend to look on them now as ...
Page 135
For though they clamour for the play of ideas , when he presents it to them they sniff at it if the ideas are familiar to them , thinking modestly that what they know already is commonplace , and if the ideas are unfamiliar to them ...
For though they clamour for the play of ideas , when he presents it to them they sniff at it if the ideas are familiar to them , thinking modestly that what they know already is commonplace , and if the ideas are unfamiliar to them ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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