“His puritan, muscular, moor-tramping soul (superbly mirrored in Higgins's hymn to the intellect in Pygmalion) bred in him a loathing of all things, whether poems or gadgets, that were designed to comfort the human condition without actively trying to improve it.”

— Kenneth Tynan

"Bernard Shaw," p. 103
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English theatre critic and writer 1927–1980

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