Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Palmer's tribute to the late President is particularly enlightening for the fact that it was purely spontaneous and written not for publication but merely as one individual writes to another. It was motivated by a profound and sincere desire in the heart and mind of the eminent professor to do personal honor to his chief. Few were in a more advantageous position to judge Dr. Eliot than was Professor Palmer, and few appreciated his personal qualities with greater symphathetic understanding. Professor Palmer saw President Eliot in certain critical situations in the latter's life from an intimate angle...
...country, and indeed of the world, President Eliot was most fortunate in receiving untold praise a few years before on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. And since his death the same intellectual class have again pronounced encomiums clothed in the finest literary dress and made by the most profound thinkers and skillful writers...
...Associated Harvard Clubs, representing Harvard organizations and Harvard men from the four corners of the earth and beyond the seven seas, greet you with assurances of profound respect, unqualified admiration, and boundless affection for one who combines the unconquerable spirit of youth with calm serenity of matured and trained judgment--to us the first of living Americans...
...been turned into opera, La Cena Delle Beffe by Umberto Giordano, in which form, as presented by the Chicago Civic Opera Company, it presents a successful, gorgeous drama-spectacle. Only Satanic music could express the diabolism of the plot. The score provided, far from being profound as sin, is puerile as the theft of jam. It dares the singers to vault along treacherous arpeggios, skip over unsound scales, probe the depths of bass tones, just to prove that it can be done. It is done, and surprisingly well, too. Claudia Muzio, one of the world's great dramatic sopranos...
...Dramatic Club is, therefore, presenting a Harlequinade and a squad of sharpshooters will be stationed tonight outside Brattle Hall to pick off anybody meaning with the intention of discovering a deep and profound symbolism, a meaning, or a moral, in it. The old theatre was intended for pure entertainment; and without prejudice to profundity in the theatre, the present effort goes back to that ancient tradition. It is nearer to knockabout farce than it is to lesbian its source is the theatre in which the Slapstick was the great instrument of percussion and of humor...