Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They that go forth and weep...
...everyone have it in Morning. The play's language- explicit and, as they say, coarse- will probably send a good deal of people out of the theatre within a few minutes after the house lights dim. And the playwright's handling of dialects (The white actors switch back and forth between Harlemese and East Side-esque.) is bound to scare a lot of whites into silence as the play goes on its hysterically funny...
...kept asking him why Senator Goodell's bill for the withdrawal of troops had not been put forth on the floor of the House. He answered that he thought of the idea before Goodell but simply had not put it forth in a bill vet. I asked if he thought the bill would pass and he replied, "No, not in this Congress...
...could see that he honestly wanted the war to end, but he felt as helpless as any one of us to end it. That was the feeling put forth by many of the assistants whom I spoke to as a substitute for the Congressmen. One asked me whether I thought his Congressman could end the war by bringing out a bill for cutting off appropriations after a certain date. When I said yes, he blew up at me, and then listed about five reasons why that was impossible. I agreed with him, then politely excused myself. His reasons were...
...clerk, with blank blue eyes behind silver-rimmed spectacles, he makes a fetish of privacy. It was three years before the world knew that he had divorced and remarried in 1953; his telephone numbers are unlisted and frequently change; and to keep his whereabouts secret, he shuttles back and forth between an apartment in Paris, a suburban house, a place in the country and a retreat in Switzerland where he does a lot of his writing...