Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Being one of God's intellectual grandchildren is no easy task, as the Student Vagabond, bowed and bent with impending Divisionals, has disgustedly observed. Notwithstanding the generally accredited levity of mind common to the season, the ponderousness of intellectual activity in the last few weeks has had a profound effect upon the Vagabond's already apparent bewilderment...
Maya is a series of nine intimate scenes in the life of a waterfront whore. These scenes, beautifully played by Aline MacMahon, allow the audience to appreciate the profound, wholesome and unfamiliar fact that Maya, for every man and for a moment, appears as the incarnation of his desires, that the face of this prostitute glitters, in the cracked mirror of each customer's longing, as the image of an ideal. This tenuous truth does not make for dramatic continuity; the play Maya stretches it against a background of homely and revelatory incidents in the life of its heroine...
TIME (Feb. 6, p. 26) made profound typographic error under section headed ART, in item headed "Plastic Advertisements," in third word in fourth paragraph-autocars...
...style, a misfit melodrama in the way he arranges a thunderstorm to enlarge the climax of every tragedy, a false fatality in the coincidence that so often generates his plots. But these faults are rooted in deeper virtues: an intense sincerity, unconcerned with merely literary effects, a profound, pitying pessimism, a relentless humanism that condemns the disorderly dieties who make men's lives sterile and without joy. There is also the scope, the inclusiveness that permits him to deal with large effects, to call, in the sweeping vigorous lines of The Dynasts, for Napoleon's army to appear...
Perhaps because of this all the essays deal more or less with books and their great value as friends, companions, educators. Most of the pieces are not very profound, and the less fortunate ones are but thinly disguised book advertisements. Dog Corner is evidently the country home of the author, and the main characters of the volume are he, his wife Margaretta, Anne, his somewhat phenomenal five-year old daughter, and the terrier, Michael...