Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content there. The best things in this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either a tremendous and subtle artistry in this seeming shapelessness or else Mr. Lindsay is gifted with a rare instinct for the proper thing to do, an instinct so profound that he does not comprehend it himself or even realize that it is there...
...Broadway swaggerer. It is splendid and touching?Walt nursing Civil War soldier boys, Walt's seerhood and second childhood in Camden, N. J. But it is all on the down grade, all in the public eye and more or less familiar, all but the peace of Walt's profound epitaph?...
...would have been obvious. As it is, the only fact that can be deduced with certainty is that students have not yet made up their minds one way or another. Most students are probably agreed that such a plan to divide the College into smaller units would have a profound effect upon Harvard life and education if it should be adopted. Many students, as the vote indicates, think this effect would be beneficial. Others, and the vote shows there are two hundred more of these, think it would not. But the question remains in doubt in the minds...
There is one section in the Student Council report, however, with which I find myself in profound disagreement: the section on subdivision into colleges. This proposal appears to me to be based upon two fallacies: (1) that a college of the English type can be created by installing a dining room and common-room in a group of dormitories; (2) that such colleges would be desirable at Harvard if attainable...
...gory glory by Mary Heaton Vorse. An editor of the New Student compiled reports of undergraduate demonstrations of all kinds and dimensions to show how many "learners" were "in active revolt." More coherent was a dialog in limbo between Lenin and Anatole France, by Poet Babette Deutsch. More profound, and quite un-Communistic save in its departure from conventional form, was an "Apology for Bad Dreams" by the country's new national poet, Robinson Jeffers of the Pacific headlands...