Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novelist James M. Cain a profound social reformer, or is he just a dreadful man? Disagreement on this point has kept his profitable reading public in a tizzy for years. His best-selling first novel (The Postman Always Rings Twice) was banned in Canada, bought and shelved by M.G.M. by request of the Hays office. Serenade and Mildred Pierce provoked enthusiasm, disgust. What baffled readers was the fact that Author Cain handled the rawest of characters without gloves, mixed social significance and abnormal psychology into speedy narratives of crime and passion...
...prodigious William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, a proponent of social reform. Nor is he, like his distinguished friend, Jacques Maritain, a scholastic philosopher. What Bernanos has done is to prove again, for the 20th Century, the psychological power of religious insight. In so doing he offers a profound challenge to free men in terms that most of them are beginning to understand...
Standing now at the top of his profession, in which, curiously enough, he holds no degree, William Francis Gibbs is a profound skeptic. Young Son Francis is an enthusiastic horseman, but Father Gibbs hates the sight of horseflesh. Said a member of his family: "He always suspects they're ready to bite him." In the same way he is leary of success. When a man begins to think of himself as successful, according to the Gibbsian philosophy, "he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes...
...convention, rebuffing Churchill, recorded its "profound dissatisfaction" with the Government's attitude, instructed its executives to press persistently for revision of the despised...
...anyone in our naval intelligence had disclosed the make-up of the Japanese attacking force, which presumably our profound scholars in Washington cubbyholes had identified by deciphering the secret Japanese code, there would have been a violation of the Espionage Act. ... Of course the Japs would immediately change their code and that would hinder our war effort and endanger our fighters until we cracked their new code...