Word: mustn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implications were lost on him. "My first sensation," he said, "was just the joy of having made the shmoo. Then came a feeling of annoyance. I've been subjected to all the shmoo jokes in the world, like 'there's good shmoos tonight,' and I mustn't say go-to-hell to anybody. Now I'm delighted again, having read that the shmoo has all sorts of economic meanings...
Billy Rose's plan to "improve" the Metropolitan Opera [TIME, Sept. 6] is commendable, but he mustn't let his long affiliation with thousands of thin-thighed showgirls go to his vocabulary when he calls opera singers "hamfats." Does he know that it takes all that "heft" to sing above a vast orchestra? . . . Opera is not supposed to be a flashy, visual affair of housebroken horses and incredible bosoms ... We don't go to look; we go to listen...
...INTENTIONS: "When you see me standing up there, mumbling to myself ... all dressed up in silk like a great pin cushion, you mustn't think of me as something quite apart, at a distance from you, uninterested in your feelings and your concerns. On the contrary, I am standing there like a great pin cushion for you to stick pins into me-all the things you want ... for yourself ... are part of the prayer that I am saying, and I couldn't prevent them being part of my intentions in saying the Mass, even if I wanted...
...many acres of ground?" said the White Queen. "You mustn't leave out so many things...
...world which he thinks is becoming more & more authoritarian. "I dread a world state run by biologists and economists ... by whom no life would be tolerated that didn't contribute to an economic purpose . . . Art can offer the surest escape from the tedium of threatening totalitarianism. It mustn't be reckless, freakish, fantastic, but must console and ennoble...