Word: beget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have found the perfect subject matter in its latest major musical, The Rothschilds, but perhaps it will only discover just how dull theater-material lucre can be. The real problem is money-not its absence, but its suffocating presence, its influence in cheapening quality, and ability to beget itself and only itself. Where the producer should be a means, he has become an and. When theater becomes a vehicle for money, it vanishes...
...TIME's hair-shirt makers offer another garment-of American Indian woof [Feb. 9]. But, rather than being "more than the conscience can bear . . . the demands of yet one more minority" beget a weariness from wailing. The Federal Government "spends only $500 million a year on aid to Indians...