Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dino. Moravia's women, whose scheming sensitivity formed the most brilliant stuff of his earlier novels, are here simply diffident, grasping, and apathetic. Dino's mother, whom he might "question . . . for hours and still not come to a conclusion about anything" and Cecilia herself, despite continual references to the depth of her breasts, stay singularly undimensional. Dino alone might save the novel, but Dino is not enough. Although he controls all the gifts of introspection, and perception which properly belong to all Moravian heroes, Moravia has failed to give him anything to perceive...
...last night's public hearing, called by the Committee to discuss its preliminary report, Eliot insisted that "it would be a great mistake to reduce the depth of controlled Harvard land by a single foot." His remarks drew applause from the audience...
...would be pointless to retell every episode or every narrow escape; like all epics The Hidden Fortress is packed with excitement, blood and wily stratagems. But this film is more than an adventure story because it treats predictable situations with unusual depth...
From the tenth-deck bridge of the world's largest ship, he looked on as depth charges were exploded just 700 ft. away, shaking the great ship as if it were a dog just out of a bath. Afterward. Kennedy accepted a windbreaker and moved with McNamara to the gusty starboard side of the ship to watch an aerial display. Two Terrier missiles homed in on a drone plane, but missed-although naval officers explained that they would have been close enough to the target if they had been armed with real warheads...
...local managements don't understand the depth of the problems that a lack of equal employment creates," he continued...