Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freudian probe" that has unveiled "an abyss within man, full of new embarrassments and a new terror...
...space probe, and the danger that man's new power to colonize the stars will turn demonic and destructive...
...Great Depression. More worrisome for Wall Street was the announcement by a House of Representatives subcommittee that it planned to investigate both SEC and stock-exchange practices to decide whether investors need to be protected with tighter security laws. On top of that, SEC announced a full-scale probe of the American Stock Exchange, the first publicly announced proceedings against any U.S. exchange since...
...from the post-war boys (Mailer, Salinger, Kerouac) and can find, with the jubilance of the healthy competitive student, nothing true in the struggling art of its peers, those now circa twenty, cannot help but be instructive to anyone--be he Harvard '37 or Harvard '63--who wants to probe his son or his roommate...
UNIVERSITY: The Academy Award winner of 1960, Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT is a half-funny, half-frightening probe into the mores of mid-century Big Business. The thousand faces of Jack Lemmon are uniformly hilarious; but Fred MacMurray, a boss-type figure and also a happy adulterer, is just an ugly slob. Shirley MacLaine, the apex of the triangle, is unusually wistful; at one point, she is made to attempt suicide. Whatever else it may be The Apartment is most definitely not the most amusing film since Some Like It Hot. Daily...