Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allied with the surrealists, until he wearied of creating what he called "these mental reconstructions." He returned to sculpting from life, paring the figure down to its bare armatures. He became the last of those School of Paris sculptors who, since Rodin, have tried to probe beneath the skin to the essence of life...
...Birch Society, Rose was deluged with bitter letters, unordered merchandise and anonymous, late-night phone calls. After he decided not to run for re-election and returned to teaching at the University of Minnesota in 1964, Miss Koch attacked him so often that the state legislature was moved to probe "Communists" on the campus-and Rose was moved to sue for libel...
...opera can get without freezing right in its tracks. To give it life and thrust, music of explosive lyric power and sweep was needed. Rorem, a conservative composer who scorns the avant-garde ("They are all writing the same piece"), provided instead a score that is largely music-to-probe-the-subconscious-by-moody, groaning, occasionally dissonant. The few lighter moments-a duet between two village lovers, the chorus celebrating the festival of Midsummer's Eve-were charmingly melodic, but the overall impact was blandly uncompelling. The sets, which Rorem confesses he "hates," were gingerbread concoctions totally antithetical...
...feel certain that if I were acting a part which required me to stand on my hands, I could do it." His Paris Burning producers, he recalls, wanted him "to speak French or English for the Von Choltitz part, but I could not; it would change things." Probe's intuition has proved bang-on; his spitting out of the traditional Junker officer's accent is breathtakingly authentic...
Died. Nicholas Kelley, 80, longtime (1937-57) director and general counsel of Chrysler Corp. and senior partner of Kelley, Drye, the Manhattan law firm whose 1960 probe of conflict-of-interest charges involving Chrysler executives toppled President William C. Newberg (his holdings in companies supplying the automaker earned him more than $450,000) and touched off an avalanche of stockholder suits that forced the resignation of flamboyant Board Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert; of a stroke; in Teaneck...