Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult and quintessential of all materials for art: the substance of mystical experience. Both, in the effort to translate it into art, have strained traditional forms and created new ones. Both use motif, refrain, counterpoint, contrasts both violent and subtle, the normal coinage of both arts, for purposes more profound and more intense than their normal coinage, for purposes more profound and more intense than their normal transactions...
Beethoven was a man of colossal genius, originality and definitiveness; Eliot is not. That might make all the difference in the world; it makes a good deal less than might be supposed. For Eliot, if he lacks major genius, is nevertheless a man of fine intellect, of profound spiritual intelligence, and of poetic talents which, if "minor," are nevertheless unmatched in his generation. And his subject is of a dignity which, if approached with these abilities, makes excellent poetry unavoidable and great poetry possible...
...More than anything else, Norway has taught us Swedes what a profound difference separates us from the so-called European new order...
Said Rear Admiral Hideo Yano, Chief of the Navy's Press Section: "The Japanese Navy will stride forward with the profound will to destroy the enemy. The war is to be prolonged and I, with you, to make the spirit of the Fleet Admiral live, must preserve and fulfill his will...
...that election the new Lewis move will probably have a profound effect. As a matter of course he will throw his whole weight against a Fourth Term. But, in view of his isolationism, he will probably also gang up with the Old Guard against liberal Republicans of the stripe of Stassen or Willkie...