Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quiet House," Paul Goodman tried to create a mood piece of an artist, disgusted by the world, but not willing to forgo it for simple, pure art. He builds the fantasy around a legend, implied, and a ghost, who appears. The first line began the general confusion. "Once there was 'a Chinese emporer, who never died because he never lived," said Allyn Moss, the one-woman chorus. This prepared the audience for a highly symbolic piece with the result that it tried to read a deep meaning into every line and missed the mood, only weakly created by the actors...
...Eager to truckle to his protegee's whims, Johnson flounders in backward child psychology and flinches under systematic torment by the overprecocious moppet. When he finds her smoking and gulping Scotch in an unguarded moment, she agrees to give up these peccadilloes, but only if he will forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with a French singer (Paula Corday), and when she turns his paternal good-night kiss into something more heated, she makes Johnson recoil with the stunned horror of a man discovering that, deep down, he is an all-too-willing fiend...
Some Jargon, Some Quackery. There would be sacrifices for all to bear. The defense program might absorb up to a third of such basic commodities as copper, aluminum and rubber. Workers would have to "accept restraints and controls upon wages," forgo strikes. Families would have to make "their household goods last longer, their automobiles and appliances, their linen and clothes." Everyone would have to pay higher taxes (see above...