Word: deepful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world knew that it had, in a sense too deep, too simple for the world to understand, connived at his death as it had connived at Lincoln's. The parallel between Gandhi's martyrdom and Lincoln's was close and obvious. Each went down in the hollow between the crest of political victory and the crest of moral defeat. And Gandhi's ashes were not cold before the world had begun to vulgarize his saintliness (as it had vulgarized Lincoln's*) by insisting, against the facts, that there was no vulgarity in him. The world...
...river Don, deep in Cossack country, in the tiny village of Veshenskaya, lives gentle-mannered Mikhail Sholokhov. There, under the straw which roofs his three-room cottage, Sholokhov watches the great river swell and wither with the seasons and writes novels (such as And Quiet Flows the Don) which are the closest approach to enduring literature that revolutionary Russia has produced. An impressed American once said of Sholokhov: "He writes for no censorship except truth...
...present-using union musicians. Result: only B pictures or antiques reach the telescreen. Another factor: cautious, fiercely competitive Hollywood moves slowly-as it did in taking up sound 21 years ago. The highest hurdle is the real, ever-present fear that the living room teleset will make a deep dent in the nation's movie box offices...
...stand for an intermission smoke. As the jump fans settled down to their beers, a stooped and droopy-eyed old Negro clambered up to the piano behind the chromium bar. He began a rolling boogie bass -not fast and tinny like most boogie, but low and underneath the deep, dark blues his right hand played. He played softly, staring out into the blue smoke as if he didn't care whether anyone listened. Not everyone did. But the oldtimers around Chicago's South Side knew that Jimmy Yancey was back...
...says Robertson, add a dimension. Take a deep breath and consider spheres instead of circles. In freshman solid geometry (which deals with ordinary "flat" space), a two-inch sphere has eight times the volume of a one-inch sphere. But if space is curved (a la Einstein), the two-inch sphere (curling in upon itself in space) will have less than eight times the volume of the one-inch sphere...