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• n  timely convenience

• What made the London audience sit up was not the clatter of the Shavian blank verse but a sly passage whose political patness even the dullest Britisher could see:.
• The brutalization through big-shotism and the defeat through victory of Joe Bonaparte, who becomes a prizefighter and breaks his violin-playing hands, is given a copybook patness.
• His insights into feminine psychology are acute, and a book that might have succumbed to formula patness moves with a mythic interior logic.

• opportuneness
• timeliness

• inopportuneness