Word: professionals
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But, despite the play's title, Androcles and the Lion are not the chief characters. In this respect, the work is like, say, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Clymbeline, and Henry IV. Although not appearing until after the Prologue, Lavinia is Shaw's leading character and spokesman. In his...
Although Shaw wrote Androcles as a children's fable, he intended it to have allegorical significance. "My martyrs," he said, "are the martyrs of all time, and my persecutors the persecutors of all time." When he came to add his Postscript in 1915, he stated: "The most striking aspect of...
* Others: the Apostles' Creed, dating from the 2nd century; the Athanasian Creed, circa A.D. 361; the Nicean Creed, A.D. 381; and the Tridentene Profession, adopted by the Council of Trent in the 16th century.
MOTHER: "What kind of profession is that, Johnny?"
To justify its ruling, the court turned to the medical profession. Expert defense testimony by a psychiatrist, explained Justice Thurgood Marshall, included the statement that Powell's first drink on each binge was a "voluntary exercise of his will." Powell, said the psychiatrist, was strongly-but not overwhelmingly-compelled...