Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ready to probe whatever our imagination prompts us to," he said. "We are convinced a gain, for the first time since the Greeks, of the essential intelligibility of the universe: there is nothing in it that is in principle not knowable...
These playwrights tend to examine the metaphysical at the expense of the physical, to probe inner psychic space and ignore outer social space. There is little happiness, less love and no hint of the pleasures of existence in these plays. But have all the juices and joys of life dried up? Scarcely. Since these authors' characters are purposely distorted and dematerialized, one cannot identify with them any more than a man can identify with his own X rays. Shakespeare said that all the world's a stage, and he made his stage all the world. With skeletal casts...
...insisted that it is "not trying to get A.T. & T.," but the investigation is giving investors quite a wringing. Since the commission announced its probe last Oct. 27, A.T. & T. stock has plunged from 66⅞ to last week's 1966 low of 52⅛, closed the week at 54. The sellers have been mostly big institutions, but the company fears that the investigation could begin to frighten off small investors as well. Already the paper loss on the stock has grown to a staggering $6.82 billion, more than double the gross national product of Ireland, and has cost...
...Board of Overseers started a probe, and exactly one month later the Faculty Council voted to forbid students to aid the schools by either tutoring or taking notes for them. Course instructors pledged to penalize "canned answers" on exams. With no source of advertising and a shrinking clientele, the schools began to founder...
...life was more difficult than poetry. In the fall of 1962, just after the birth of her son Nicholas, she and Hughes separated permanently. Alone with the children in Devon, Sylvia hurled herself into a heroic but foolhardy attempt to probe her deepest problems with the point...