Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condone waste of still-usable automobiles and refrigerators because Americans can afford the "better" things, and you state that the only real waste is the waste of human resources. Did it not occur to the writer that the majority of Americans spend their lives in jobs they don't like mainly to earn more money to buy-and to waste-such items? Are these people not wasting their lives in the "real" sense of the word...
...film, that he and his friends get together some Saturday afternoon and let the cameras roll. If the actor moves and the camera catches only a bit of his head and lots of the bathroom behind him, it's all right: it's all good stuff. A director can afford a certain nonchalance when he's working in the unexplored regions of the soul...
...which moved to an off-Broadway theater in Manhattan and was panned for its stacked-cards plotting. But Yale's Associate Drama Dean Gordon Rogoff finds value in critical flops. The university theater's function, he says, is to be "the one remaining place where one can afford to fail...
This is inevitable on a noncommercial TV show budgeted so low that there was only one rehearsal before taping, where volunteers had to be recruited to wash dishes, and the food sometimes had to be auctioned off to the audience afterward to cover expenses. Obviously, the station could not afford to dub the flubs even if it wanted to. The thing is, it didn't. Seeing Julia Child goof can only make viewers less fearful of disasters in their own kitchens. Says the producer, Ruth Lockwood: "We wanted to let Julia be herself at any cost...
...Louis Benoist perfects his crab gumbo, or Actor Burgess Meredith spends hours concocting his "All Mighty Salad," the brunt of cooking and planning still remains the woman's task. Today's hostess, jealous of her favorite recipes, prefers to make them herself, even when she can well afford a cook or caterer. And the change in party and daily diet is nothing short of revolutionary...