Word: misfits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brilliance and scintillation of the piece we pride ourselves on comprehending. We can even understand such ideas as "scrapping" a misfit religion or saving souls by killing men, but put everything together and what is the final meaning of the sum total? We rather guess Shaw knew, but he has kept his secret, and the challenge "to make war on war" is virtually a sealed book. All this may be highly commended, for what didactic influence Shaw is attempting to make, is sent out over the footlights with a subtlety and belief that "the malice of a good thing...
...personal work, for it embodies all the hazards of failure. Teaching is this pastoral personal opportunity. Do you know a man who is eating his heart out in an uncongenial trade into which custom has forced him? Might he not be teaching? The sooner the better, let the possible misfit and his friends investigate the work of the boarding schools...