Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FORGET who you are. You are now a New Jersey State Senator. Before you lies the task of choosing a site for the long-awaited New York metropolitan jetport. Keeping in mind the area you represent, plus the wealth of technical information available, feel free to caucus, make deals, take bribes, draft legislation, and generally become--as best you know how--a real-life politician...
Leland Moss directs an unfortunately wishy-washy version of The Collection. So long as he keeps the air free of dramatic pauses the dialogue has the porcelain sparkle that is Pinter's cache. But from time to time the actors forget they are in a Pinter play and try to make us understand what they are feeling. When that happens torpor floods the stage and it seems that the puzzling plot and symbolism just aren't worth the trouble...
...play that kind of character an actor must forget each line after he speaks it. He must forget how he has been hurt and not imagine how he will be hurt. He is obliged to have a stage presence without having a firm stage personality...
...does not join, the union insists, he can forget about the third and fourth records he has tentatively planned and reserve his long-play rhetoric for Meet the Press. For Dirksen, who has indefatigably reiterated his conviction that no one should be forced to join a union, and twice last year led successful filibusters to preserve state right-to-work laws, AFTRA's demands pose a delicate dilemma indeed...
Angels or Murderers? Repeating his familiar line, Fulbright warns that Washington is alienating most of the world with its "international policeman" tactics. At the same time, he says, the U.S. is thwarting the very nationalism that American policy has traditionally supported. The U.S. should by and large forget about fighting Communism, he urges, and concentrate on backing nationalism; when Communism captures a nationalist movement, the U.S. ought to accept that...