Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...those not willing to sign a check on the spot. Koscot recruiters have a maximum prod: a free flight to company headquarters in one of Turner's nine planes. On arrival they are fed, feted and shown a film of Turner's life story punctuated with shots of tropical beaches and expensive cars. After all that, there are few holdouts...
...seeming violation of psychobiography, of delving into an historical soul, pales beside the violation of misapplied psychology of a biographer. The growing number of superb psychobiographies should prod the biographer to redefine his role. Dr. Cody has gotten hold of what small sureness can be secured from Emily's life...