Word: goad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this personification of the outside power is lost in the next play, Beckett's "Act without Words II." The outside power has become a snout-nosed prod ("the Goad") that rattles on stage to awake first Klein, then Volpe, who like wind-up tops proceed to go through their daily routine. Klein and Volpe again are a nice contrast: Klein prays to the ceiling and pops a pill before he can slump out of his sack; Volpe is already speeding: he shadow-boxes even while he eats his morning carrot...
...Goad. The basic conflict is between opposing interpretations of the public interest. To conservationists, NEPA is a goad to force the entire federal establishment to pay more attention to environmental problems. Turning to the courts, they have challenged the ecological wisdom of project after project-and thus halted them. "If agencies were making a real effort to implement NEPA, there wouldn't be so much litigation," argues Lawyer Gus Speth of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "It's a tough law and the agencies didn't realize it." But they are learning the lesson. To date...
Casey Cowen's bull is her audience, which she must goad and challenge to laughter. "There is something about a comedian standing in front of an audience and saying, in effect, 'I'm here to make you laugh," says Coe. "Casey has to fill the stage with her personality, ever active, ever activated, and always in control. With satellite figures, she is the play. And as she becomes more successful, more self-confident, a dichotomy arises between possession of the audience and her own personal life." Fluttering her soul in front of the audience as her cape, Casey must either...
...report grew out of "general paranoia and confusion among graduate students about finding jobs," Jean Goad, co-chairman of GWO's Task Force on Jobs, said yesterday...
...point is not that we think there's overt or conscious discrimination against women and minorities, but that they have the most to lose in a disorganized system," Goad added...