Word: proddings
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...prone to nitpicking and preoccupied with criticizing news judgment rather than errors of fact. But Abraham Kalish, 66, the organization's executive secretary and former feature writer for the U.S. Information Agency, insists: "All we're interested in is accuracy-to be an ever-present prod to the news media so they will strive to be sure their stories are accurate...
...result was formation of a six-reporter "Brandegee goose-'em committee," the purpose of which was to "keep editors on their toes, to keep them mad and unsatisfied." That restless spirit has been typical of the Globe in recent years, and this week the paper got another prod toward self-improvement: the death of its traditional rival, the Herald Traveler...
...this personification of the outside power is lost in the next play, Beckett's "Act without Words II." The outside power has become a snout-nosed prod ("the Goad") that rattles on stage to awake first Klein, then Volpe, who like wind-up tops proceed to go through their daily routine. Klein and Volpe again are a nice contrast: Klein prays to the ceiling and pops a pill before he can slump out of his sack; Volpe is already speeding: he shadow-boxes even while he eats his morning carrot...
...examples of vice unfettered, they now need go no further than the early days of the Third Reich. Movies as different as Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools. Lucino Visconti's The Damned. Hal Prince's Something for Everyone and Bertolluci's The Conformist have begun to pick and prod the corpses of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in search of moral parallels to our own, none-too-healthy times. (And, though it's true Visconti and Bertolluci can hardly be dismissed as Hollywood hacks, the very fact that their films, once made, were eagerly distributed by major American studios...
...already established Coles, 42, as the most influential living psychiatrist in the U.S. Black Psychologist Kenneth Clark says that Coles' quiet presence on the national scene "keeps morality, decency and justice alive." Leon Eisenberg, director of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, believes that Coles' work is an "effective prod to the social conscience of other psychiatrists...