Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strip off veil after veil of obscuring matter and finally encounter what Yeats called "the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart." But to achieve the "wholeness" of which Brother Antoninus speaks, this experience is essential. This is why he writes poetry; it forces him to probe the nature of his heart: "It is painful, but there will be a catharsis, a healing, and an appeasement...
...theater, is a perfect example of the kind of playwright Broadway will still not touch, to its considerable loss. His The Blacks, now well over the 700 mark in performances, is probably the most satisfying work of art ever produced on the color question, an unsentimental depth probe of a labyrinth of hate-guilt feelings, in which blacks and whites literally mask but cannot hide their attitudes toward each other and themselves...
...Brother Rat Mentality." At West Point, cadets do not major in subjects; the curriculum (60% science and engineering) is broken into little units of information. Having completed each step, says Boroff, cadets have no incentive to probe further, particularly in humanities. Nor have they time: the "awesome" academic load is some 21 class hours a week, plus military training and compulsory athletics. Worse, says Boroff, most of the 358-man faculty (only 14 have doctorates) are short-tour officers who tend to follow canned lesson plans. Says Boroff: "Academically, West Point is a second-class college for first-class students...
...nter Grass, Heinrich Böll and Uwe Johnson-has signaled a change. Their achievement represents the fulfilled promise of a handful of serious writers, most of them young and linked with a maverick literary movement known as Group 47, who have persistently gone on trying to probe beneath the surface prosperity to the uneasy past. As artists, they know that the dramatic story of Nazi Germany must lie not with the wolves but in the everyday lives of the lambs-those many individuals whose accumulation of fear, self-protective indifference or private greed let it all happen. In short...
...both the Du Pont and Goodrich suits, the judges issued temporary restraining orders, then settled back to probe precedent before making final decisions. Many decisions seem to favor the complaining companies. In one 1944 case a New York court allowed a Fairchild aircraft vice president to go to work elsewhere but enjoined him for five years from any activity remotely linked to a then-secret Fairchild process for cooling aircraft engines. The problem of trade secrets has lately become more acute: much of today's corporate research is done under Government contract and hence cannot be patented. Often...