Word: goof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some new Saroyan shenanigans. A brand-new, self-consciously indigenous, highly touted and talented group who call themselves the Ballet Theatre staged the world premiere of a Saroyan innovation. Its title was a phrase for which anti-Saroyans have long groped to describe William Saroyan himself: The Great American Goof. The author of My Heart's in the Highlands, The Time of Your Life, Inhale & Exhale (short stories), called his experiment a "balletplay." It used music (composed by Henry Brant), dancing (choregraphed by Eugene Loring), dialogue (Saroyan's), and exquisite, dreamy sets consisting of stereopticon shadows cast...
...Goof, a cowlicky, touching little dandelion seed of a man whom Saroyan characterized as "the naive white hope of the human race," wanted to change the world. He was thwarted wherever he went by an Easter-Parade cutaway-dummy representing conformity, and a deadpan gal named Destiny. He tried to change the world with love (represented by Minsky models in black lace panties), poetry, music, facts and statistics, common labor. He pleaded with all sorts-a dope-fiend radical, a religious drunkard, a doting old man with a beard and a penchant for poetry, followed by a girl representing...