Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four times the Rt. Hon. James A. Robb has appeared impeccably to present a budget before the Canadian Parliament, and every time has achieved warm applause. Canadians know that he will be crisp, profound and lucid on these occasions. His keen sense of politics humanizes his high, austere ability. Last week he said: "Four years ago, when I presented my first budget, Canada was still suffering from the effect of post-War depression. Today all traces of that depression have disappeared; a spirit of optimism is general, and our domestic and international trade is flourishing." Ergo, Finance Minister Robb presented...
...down one's first impression of the book; for to slang Lewis Carroll for not coming up to expectations in a collection of early fragments is pointless and positively unkind. Verse and prose, most of it is nowhere near "Alice"; and it is only when disappointment becomes too profound that something like the following comes to the reader's rescue...
...book are little pen drawings built up of alphabetic script distorted to form pictures. Here too, humor pops up without warning, notably in the sketch of a whirlwind going up a flower. In short, he who reads "The Candle in the Cabin" will find psychological symbolism verging on the profound and subte wit verging on the hilarious...
...more permanent value than other writings--"The Happy Life"; "John Gilley"; the "Life of Charles Eliot". "These papers on the conduct of life are the answer to those who think of Dr. Eliot as a man concerned only with intellectual and material values. They display from many angles his profound concern with human character and his conviction that it is in spiritual things that the permanent satisfactions of life are found...
...that may be his lack, for in what he could understand he was struck by elements of really great drama and penetrating insight. The difficulties of language are as smoke surrounding a flame. Pirandello's thought, tinged with a profound yet tender pessimism, is in the truly grand manner. If he fails, it is only because he has attempted too much. And again his failure may be those of the translator and reviewer...