Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most fascinating--and elusive--kinds of history is the interpretation of national or sectional myth; the attempt to describe and analyze the sources and influence of the fictions in which people clothe their deepest feelings about their characters, individual and social. It is a peculiarly relevant sort of history to write today, when the power of such myths is greater than ever, and the danger they represent if unexamined so appalling...
...million Mont Blanc tunnel will represent a big advance in European transport when it is opened to traffic early in 1964. The 23-ft., two-lane roadway will chop 125 mountainous miles from the Paris-Rome drive, open a route usable even when Alpine snow is deepest; Geneva and Turin. 197 miles apart by road in the summer and 491 miles apart in the winter, will be separated by 168 miles all year long when the tunnel is opened...
...party's feelings, discontent is deepest among hard-core Tories. By his brusque, humiliating dismissals of leading ministers, Mac the Knife violated the most sacred tenet of Toryism: party loyalty.* Said one former government minister last week: "The Tory Party is a peculiar, organic thing of which you're either wholly a part or else never really of it. Even a Tory leader may not really be of it-he can use and be used by the party for so long as he's required, and then he becomes expendable. That's what happened with Churchill...
Four years ago, Grant and his psychiatrist tried using LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful drug with effects similar to mescaline) to help uproot Cary's deepest psychological problems. Often called instant analysis, LSD cleans out the subconscious like lye in a septic tank. Impressed with his own progress under its influence, Grant delivered a confessional lecture at U.C.L.A.: "I was a self-centered boor," he told an audience of fascinated students. "I was masochistic and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, 'There must be something wrong with me,' I grew...
Wittgenstein viewed philosophy battle against the of our understanding by of our language," a battle to "let the fly out of bottle." This concept contrasted with the of philosophy by the "deepest " of the existentialists, Heidegger -- "fulfilled to the Being...