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Quotation by Paul Goodman
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"1959" Five Years (1966)"Censorship and Pornography on the Stage""Ireland, Spring 1958" Five Years (1966)"Obsessed by Theatre" Nation (New York, Nov. 29, 1958)"On the Intellectual Inhibition of Explosive Grief and Anger" Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals, Random House (1962)Related Subjects
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Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
Paul Goodman (1911–1972), U.S. literary critic, author. repr. In Creator Spirit Come (1977). "Obsessed by Theatre," Nation (New York, Nov. 29, 1958).
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