Word: goad
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...point is that the rules are easier to follow inside Audton than outside. Under the ministrations of Warden Goad, Filmore discovers that each hour is filled with well-managed activity. His muscle tone responds to early rising and hard work; his dormant mind is stimulated by his cerebral fellow cons. "Here," says one eloquently, "here, there is near perfection. The rules cover everything, from your sex life to your shoelaces...
...that he did not want to know a man who was "sitting in a sewer and adding to it." Nor was Truman Capote seriously feuding when he remarked of Jack Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, that's typing." Novelist Nelson Algren was unable to goad either Sloan Wilson or Herman Wouk into a full-dress feud when he wrote: "If The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit married Marjorie Morningstar on my front porch at high noon, I wouldn't bother to go to the wedding...
After they play "Humiliate the Host," George proposes other games, like "Get the Guests." Nick gets Martha. George tries to goad Honey into listening to the lewd off-stage cavortings of their spouses, but she is locked in some private bomb shelter of her sodden fearful mind, and will not hear. At this point, the play achieves a suffocating vision of evil that would take a second Flood to cleanse. Even sin is sterile. Martha returns with a crestfallen Nick and announces mock-grandiosely: "I am the earth-mother, and you're all flops...
...this would not be his last tangle with that cold and distant target. Whatever obstacles he stumbles into, Brainerd Holmes is determined to hit the moon on schedule. The U.S. space program must proceed at top speed, he argues, even if the Russians (whose space spectaculars are the principal goad that moves Congress to the necessary generosity) should retire wholly from the space race. "When a great nation is faced with a technological challenge," says Scientist Holmes with scientific directness, "it has to accept or go backward. Space is the future of man, and the U.S. must keep ahead...
Instead of keeping Algeria French, the Secret Army's terrorists now seemed determined to destroy it. "If we are forced to leave," they threaten, "we will leave the country the way we found it in 1830." Meanwhile, they are desperately trying to provoke a racial war that would goad the Moslems to revolt and wreck the cease-fire agreement. Last week was the bloodiest since the cease-fire began...