Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lent over $100,000, and M.I.T. more than three times that much. John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, earlier this year said that such a loan organization would be an important step forward, although it could never replace scholarships, which are for students who cannot afford a loan...
Again and again executive wives themselves state firmly that the only sensible approach to the goal of being an ideal executive wife is to relax and forget about emulating a prototype. As Mrs. Charles Vychopen, wife of the traffic director of Slick Airways, put it: "You can't afford to get too inhuman about everything, and you can't be too sophisticated about how you act. The best thing is just to try to be yourself...
Equity, the all-powerful actors' union, is open to anyone who can land a paying job--and afford their initiation fee. Hence in 1952 some 83% of Equity members were unemployed. The ranks of those aspiring to frame and bright lights had been swollen by a large crop of college students interested in the arts and by thousands of veterans who had studied dramatic arts under the GI Bill...
...putting a Broadway show on the boards has forced Broadway into dependence on temporary "hits" that rapidly draw large audiences and then fade into oblivion before next month's epic. A show that does not promise to be immediately popular with a mass audience is completely impractical. Few can afford to pay $12 or more for a pair of tickets to a show that hasn't been predigested and approved. For example, Candide recently closed to a loss of nearly half a million dollars. On the other hand, Take a Giant Step by Louis Peterson required $70,000 to produce...
Financially, the books of Broadway musicals cannot afford to be irresponsible. Soaring overhead costs have shot the tab for a new musical up to a minimum of $300,000, compared to $180,000 for Kiss Me, Kate in 1948. Since it takes a solid run of some six months in one of the big theaters to get back the big money, a musical producer knows he must have a solid hit or strike out. A prime casualty of Broadway overhead is the intimate revue that needs a small theater to catch on. Shoestring '57, a fresh, 30-skit production...