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On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:33:05 -0500, Tom Ring
wrote: Hal Rosser wrote: So now you're pickin' on my slide rule? Is nothing sacred?? I like my slide rule. Its more useful than my solar-powered flashlight. The slide rule works without any power or batteries. :-) And its accurate to 3 (sometimes 4) significant digits. Solar powered flashlight? Heck, we have a made up loony lefty here in Minneapolis who wants people to use electric powered generators to reduce noise and pollution during emergencies. Morgan Q. E. Wolfe-Slattery, a true Euphorian. I have 2 slide rules that I picked up recently, but I miss my easy on the eyes yellow aluminum Pickett LogLogDeciTrig (I think that's what it was) that got misplaced during a move a couple decades ago. I also wish I still had my HP35, 45 and 11C. I do have a working HP25, 15C and 48SX though. My sharp stick needs only infrequent exposure to fire to allow me to solve differential equasions. And that's only if there's not a smooth bed of sand nearby. |
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On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 20:51:06 GMT, "Tom Donaly"
wrote: George Bernard Shaw was a Fabian socialist. Hi Tom, To amplify, George Bernard Shaw and GBS were two different people. What you offered, following, is true of Shaw. He believed that the aim of most people of the society of his day was to become so wealthy as to become economic parasites who didn't produce and didn't contribute. He didn't like this, so he preached against it in his works. Since producing wealthy parasites was what the business side of Hollywood has always been about, But how he reacted to: it's no wonder they emasculated his script. was as GBS, a one man advertising agency for George Bernard Shaw. In that respect, GBS and Hollywood were on parallel tracks, even if they didn't converge. When GBS/Shaw fulminated, it was over other issues. Basically the Fabian society's ethic was pie-in-the-sky economics that faded with Victoria. Shaw was infinitely more radical, and still more current today than ever with his up-front stories of sexual politics. Absolutely no one goes to a Shavian play to ponder the plight of masses burning the barricades before the classist society. Likewise, no one reads G.K. Chesterton and "The Man Who Was Thursday" when they can catch Father Brown instead. If you had your druthers, would you watch an edited version of "Man and Superman," or its interior play "Don Juan in Hell?" Hollywood rebelled far more vigorously against ALL of Shaw's women protagonists than giving even the slightest thought about any economic theory. Your comment about Hollywood emasculating his scripts; in fact they pumped these scripts up with so much testosterone that "My Fair Lady" is a travesty of a woman submitting to and being redeemed by a man. It is this kind of cheesecake that sells, and selling movies is the ONLY thing Hollywood cares about. If they thought they could sell communism (Warren Beatty's "Reds") then we would have been watching the life of Stalin in technicolor and surround-sound for the past 70 years. Anybody here ever see the movie "Greed?" This came from the pen of Frank Norris, one of the most acidic writers against capitalism ever to come down the pike (and a contemporary of Shaw). Both of these movies were well made, by acclaimed directors and backed with wheelbarrows full of cash. To put it bluntly, neither of these examples drew crowds. Hollywood backs a winner and doesn't give a damn about ANY message as long as it doesn't interfere with selling popcorn. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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