Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without the slightest hesitation that a free, independent and friendly China is of profound importance to the peace of the world and to the position of the U.S. It is the fundamental keystone to the Pacific arch...
...investigation by the Senate. For decades large segments of the Christian churches shied away from theology; God was "a lurking luminosity, a cozy thought." Against the current of his day, Niebuhr pursues a quest into the nature of God, of man, of sin. What Niebuhr thinks has a profound connection with the business of establishing and maintaining a democratic civilization. Niebuhr is not easy to understand (TIME'S editors, at least, do not find him easy); but it is TIME'S job to make Niebuhr's thought clear to those of its readers who are not adept...
...Absalom was the killer. . This situation allows the novelist to dramatize with irony a complex of interracial tensions in which there seems little but heartbreak for the just and disinterested. Although it is as much meditation as fiction in certain parts, and the meditation is not always as profound as it is impassioned, Cry, the Beloved Country has moments of distinction...
...Vengeance," was effected only with a loss in subtle force equal to that suffered in the change of titles. But all of Huxley could not be distilled out fortunately, and that which remains raises the film far above the usual "psychodrama." His writing of the scenario produced dialogue more profound than that, ordinarily heard in film...
Schuman liked to say, "I am a technician, not an ideologist." He had a profound distaste for "isms." Therefore he was capable of as many twists and turns as he found necessary in the daily business of saving the Republic. But at the same time, Schuman never lost his quiet humanity nor his faith in men-qualities which distinguish him from the "Coco" doctrinaires of the Left and the gauntly pessimistic De Gaulle on the Right...