Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This profound nervousness on the part of the Russians is not due merely to fear of Japan, for in the event of a struggle it seems evident that the Russians are going to prove hard nuts for the Japs to crack; nor is it attributable to fear that their programme of internal development will be irreparably damaged by a war, although both of these factors certainly play an important part. The cause of the jumpy nerves of the Soviets goes far deeper and is less tangible than this; what this cause is was revealed in a recent speech by Stalin...
...parties are now, only eight years after it was written; his exceedingly successful use of figures fails, however, to give the dynamics of the social situation. For all of his familiarity (he teaches a course) will Communist and Fascist theory, he seems to be insensitive to the profound ethical, economic, and social challenges of today. It is impossible in this short space to enter into any of the many possible point of attack on his predictions...
Skipping rapidly from social theory to ethics and morals, the executive secretary becomes most profound, "The habit of regarding pictures emotionally must be overcome," he says, "and we must learn to take hold of our task very dispassionately. It is time to stop talking about the morals of the movies,' for morals change and movies change, and the moral viewpoint of yesterday is not the moral viewpoint of today." In addition to all this research one of Mr. Wilton's colleagues has, after long and arduous labors, discovered that the mental age of movie audiences has increased from fourteen...
...philosophy Harvard has religious-minded William Ernest Hocking, 60, profound Alfred North Whitehead, 72, one of the three "geniuses" whom Gertrude Stein has known (others: herself, Painter Pablo Picasso). Ill health made William Zebina Ripley, 66, railroad expert, retire last March but economics in 1932 acquired brilliant Josef Alois Schumpeter, onetime (1919) Finance Minister of Austria. Since 1882 Frank William Taussig, 74, tariff authority, has been one of Harvard's proudest possessions...
...scholarship which universities need is that which is born of a profound love of its subject, which is nourished by years of thought in the company of other minds, especially in classroom and conference, which is tested by teaching, and which is matured at last as a book which shall enable men to live with greater charity and nobility. Socrates, the greatest teacher men have known, said that no one knew a thing if he were unable to impart it to others. Countless lecture rooms bear ineloquent testimony to the ignorance of scholars...