Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (film) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (film) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night is a 1967 television play broadcast as part of the "CBS Playhouse" series. The teleplay, its title taken from the first line of a Dylan Thomas poem, tells the story of a carpenter who has built his own home, but is now too old and infirm to live on his own and is sent to live in an old age home against his desires. It was broadcast in October 1967, and was eventually nominated for five Emmy awards, including a nomination for supporting
Do Not Ask What Good We Do the 2010 election. A majority of those he spoke with and listened to were Republicans, especially among the 87 new legislators. The title of the book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do", is taken from a sentence in a letter from Fisher Ames to Thomas Dwight, dated May 30, 1796: "Do not ask what good we do : that is not a fair question, in these days of faction." The prologue to the book details how, on the night of Obama's inauguration, a group of around 15 Republican Representatives and Senators met in the Caucus Room, a "high-end D.C.