Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first full-length stage work, Playwright Owens, a 30-year-old Manhattan housewife, seesaws insecurely between the scenic jungle onstage and the psychic jungle in 20th century man. Apparently beginning as a psychological probe of modern woman's instinct for the male jugular, Beclch ends as a form of social parable on black Africa's expulsion of cruel, exploiting whites. Liberally scatological in its language, the play uses four-letter words as fashionable credentials. They seem to show that the author can spit the raw verbal gristle of experience at the audience coolly, and strictly for laughs...
...that it is "on the brink of revolution." Maybe- but it has been on the brink for quite a while. In all, he spent only six months touring an area twice the size of the U.S., and his book, like all his other Insides, can hardly be expected to probe as deeply as the title suggests. But for all that, Inside South America is a valuable introduction to a continent that deserves more attention and more understanding than it usually gets...
College Stuff. As far as the Packers are concerned, a first half is just a patrol action. Contact the enemy, draw his fire, test his strengths, probe his weaknesses. In the locker room at half time, Coach Vince Lombardi wasted no time on pep talks. "Stop grabbing and start tackling," he growled, and then he got down to specifics. Fact One: the Chiefs, on the average, were younger, bigger and probably stronger than the Packers -whose ground game had not been much to brag about all year, anyhow. That led naturally to Fact Two: Packer Quarterback Bart Starr, who completed...
...rather than content so that the student would develop, with the professor, a technique of critical analysis rather than a list of memorized facts. A Humanities course would not attempt to familiarize students with a wide historical range of "the greats" of literature or art. Instead, a class would probe in depth isolated examples of literary, artistic and musical creation. An examination would present new material and ask the students to apply the intellectual and emotional methods of analysis and appreciation developed over the year...
...religion. Surely that must be resolved before you sit down to write your "revealing probe." Is it in to believe? And in what? How do we feel about Christ? Well, let's take a look. At the beginning of the novel, He may be a way out of one heroine's dilemma. After going to church high on "benzedrin, dexedrin, nodoz" she comes home and sits down at her desk...