Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black pipe, charred and chewed, is almost as famous as his classroom ritual "Now you can see at once"--a hopeful, declaration usually followed by the most profound point of the day's lecture. His lectures are invariably provocative and stimulating, and his students can hardly escape acquiring his scholarly attitude...
...Majestic isn't a museum, which means that all pictures cannot be revived. Current attraction is "Meet John Doe," made by Warner Brothers in 1941 and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brannan, Barbars Stanwyck, and James Gleason--an entertaining, if not profound, social-conscience picture that has none of the anachronisms in fashion and dialogue that bar many old pictures from the Majestic screen...
...World. The power which the United States demonstrated during the war is the fact that underlies every phase of our relations with other countries. We cannot escape the responsibility which it thrusts upon us. What we think, plan, say and do is of profound significance to the future of every corner of the world...
...sort of picture that looks better in the lobby stills than it does on the screen. There are handsome shots of Lake Xochimilco and some well-photographed, well-directed crowd scenes. The picture's hero (Pedro Armendariz) is a good-looking, brooding peon, who appears to have a profound store of peasant wisdom; unfortunately, the sound track keeps contradicting that impression...
...answer: "I am filled with ... a profound, mystic, silence-enjoining awe, in the presence of the religious greatness of the damned, in the presence of genius of disease and "the disease of genius, of the type of the afflicted and the possessed, in whom saint and criminal are one. . . . It is incomparably easier and more wholesome to write about divinely pagan healthfulness than about holy disease. We may amuse ourselves at the expense of the former, the fortunate children of nature and their artlessness; we cannot amuse ourselves at the expense of the children of the spirit, the great sinners...