Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suspicious and secretive people in the world. The lack of a European second front still angers them, and last week they resumed their storming for one. When thousands of Russians are being killed every day, they cannot go into ecstasies over U.S. planes and tanks. They have, moreover, a profound dislike of being treated as poor cousins...
...novel (TIME, March 1); hence it is like no other picture that ever came out of Hollywood. Such things as plot worry Saroyan not at all. People are the grist for his mill, and the Macauleys of Ithaca, Calif, are good grist. Saroyanesquely naive one moment, they are profound the next; now smug and annoying, now simple and lovable. Definitely, they are human beings, and fortunately the story of their day-today, small-town lives is told with few of the irrelevancies that Saroyan usually contrives. There is a characteristic lack of reticence in the telling, but the story survives...
...them all is the very great Chiang Kaishek. There may be flashier boys -but none with the Generalissimo's profound serenity and fortitude...
...last week came a shock as profound as if the sun had suddenly gone into unexpected eclipse. In a third of the nation men & women of the great American automobile age awoke to find they could no longer buy gasoline. The automobiles in which they rode to work and pleasure, to school and market, were nearly as obsolete as a dinosaur...
criticism followed - and on the whole lagged behind - the nationalistic lead which the late Constance Rourke set a generation ago. She took her last steps in this year in the profound inquiry into the U.S. past entitled Roots of American Culture ($3). Miss Rourke herself some times colored her valuable findings with somewhat parochial opinions; some other critics, last year, rather overdid their overnationalism. Ferner Nuhn's The Wind Blew From the East ($3) contains often very perceptive studies of antidemocrats Henry Adams, Henry James...