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...those periods when the right to strike seems less important than the right to work." At any rate, we wish Mr. Prochnow luck in his new job at the State Department, and we hope he thinks up many more ways "to point out the foibles of men, to goad them into action, to shatter their pride, and to awaken humor." STEPHEN R. BARNRTT
...pressure, the government announced almost shamefacedly that Ingalinella had "died of a heart attack during an interrogation in which violence was used." To Argentines familiar with the methods of Perón's police, this suggested that the Rosario cops had tortured him with the picana, an electric goad applied to sensitive parts of the body. The seven cops involved, said the government, were awaiting trial. Some wondered: was it merely a searching for scapegoats, or something more significant, when a police state be gins calling policemen to account...
...nudes wrapped in cheesecloth, banal studio models posed in quaint period costumes. Into this world rushed a group of artists who, by the genteel standards of the day, behaved like sandlot hoodlums bent on showing only America's dirty face. Their talented and dashing leader was Robert Henri, goad and teacher to more than a dozen leading American painters. Last week, with the biggest collection of Henri's work to be shown since 1931 on display at New Jersey's Montclair Art Museum, tribute was rendered to Henri and the days when American art came...
Nakedly Plain. Tynan's rule for drama criticism: "Rouse tempers, goad, lacerate, raise whirlwinds." He carries out the rules with a vengeance, writing in a rich, sometimes overripe style ("My stylistic father is Horizon, my mother Vogue"). "With men who know rococo best," says one of his more cynical American admirers, "it's Tynan two to one." He has an unerring eye for the sorest point, whether it be an actress' weight or her unpleasing hands. After seeing Britain's venerated Dame Edith Evans play Shakespeare's Cleopatra, he wrote: "Bereft of fan, lace...
...Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement, 33, for "his contributions to the general welfare of the people" of his state (TIME...