Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time to Digest. In the sense that the drop was the fastest and deepest, the recession was the worst since World War II. The gross national product lost $19.8 billion in six months. It was also the most carefully reported, closely analyzed and best understood of the three postwar recessions. Everyone knew the basic causes: businessmen, expanding at fantastic rates ever since World War II, had to slow down; the economy needed time to sit back and digest all the new capacity. Plant expansion, roaring along at the rate of $37.8 billion in 1957, dropped to $29.6 billion...
...Which means, to me at least, that man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. It is for this reason that love becomes the ultimate human answer to the ultimate human question. Love, in reason's terms, answers nothing. We say that Amor vincit omnia but in truth love conquers nothing-certainly not death-certainly not chance...
THERE have been few headlines I about Boris Pasternak since the two days on which he 1) received and 2) declined the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature. The nature of Pasternak's achievement is one that does not lend itself to headlines, but is nevertheless of the deepest concern to journalism. Says TIME: "Pasternak has called his book's tremendous success the 'Zhivago miracle,' but the paradox of the Pasternak miracle is equally compelling. He is a stubborn man who is not really a martyr. He is an aggrieved man and yet not an avenger...
...maintained, however, that no argument on the break-down of industry has any relation to the "fundamental critique" of Marx, which involves the "deepest levels of individual psychology and consciousness...
...Marxism allows us to hope for something much better than mankind has yet evidenced. That is the deepest meaning of Marxism today," Sweezy concluded...