Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love of liberty and freedom of thought is a most admirable attribute of Harvard. But it is not an exclusive possession of Harvard or of any other university in America. Love of liberty and freedom of thought are as profound in the homes, on the farms, and in the factories of this country as in any university. Liberty is the air Americans breathe...
...cellars. When the fighting had passed, many expressed their relief in outbursts of uncontrollable laughter. But M.G.ers, watching the way little children shuddered at the noise of heavy bombers passing overhead, the way their parents listened to the heavy shells going over, knew that their next mood would be profound depression. Yet, somehow, M.G. had to work with and through them. It was not a happy prospect...
...will leave Japanese and American Christians farther apart than they have ever been before. "Japanese Christians will love their land and people in defeat with a more profound love than ever before. They will probably trust their leaders with less criticism and more loyalty." Missionaries returning to Japan will be greeted with deep suspicion. Young Americans who could replace them may balk at giving their lives to missionary service in an enemy country...
People without Passion. His reading also gave him a profound awareness of his people's plight. "I used to mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that...
...characteristics of Babbitt. He is smug, ambitious, self-righteous, calculating. Unlike Babbitt, he has a mean streak, especially in his relations with women. His life is actually harsher than Babbitt's was. But his enjoyment of his stale jokes is genuine; his faith in his secondhand opinions is profound; his comic-strip adventures with girls and jobs are funny...