Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Friedrich's "New Belief in the Common Man" is a rare example of the political thcoretician's ability to write good literature. The volume (based for the most part on a series of Lowell Institute Lectures) is no less delightful than it is profound. As a discussion of its important theme, it is indispensable not only to the student of government, but also to anyone who wishes to understand the crucial problems of our time. It bears its reasoned faith with grace and charm; and as an exercise in the delicate art of conducting controversy it is a model...
...Congress for 29 of his 74 years. Banker, insurance-company director, hotel owner, Treadway has been an able peacetime servant of his constituents, has well served the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers as an unofficial watchdog on tax legislation. His knowledge of tax matters is profound and broad...
Cities & Cells. To Planner Saarinen a city is an organism which grows and flourishes or sickens and withers like a plant, according to profound natural laws and the conditions of its environment. Healthiest and most perfectly formed cities, Saarinen believes, were those of the Middle Ages, when the relative simplicity of social life made it possible for architects to build them as complete units. The medieval town, like France's Carcassonne and Holland's Naarden (see cut), resembled the organic cell of animal and plant life, its spired cathedral forming a spiritual nucleus for its web of radiating...
...Germany blundered into torpedoing another Argentine freighter. But it was almost a foregone conclusion that the Nazis would get off with little more than the "profound regret" they had expressed for the Victoria, sunk last April...
C.I.P. last week released a survey showing that in recent months over 60 Catholic prelates, from Chile to Mexico, have specifically condemned Naziism. "Today," added C.I.P., "the Latin American hierarchy is intent upon bringing to light the hidden but profound dangers of totalitarianism . . . and ... is doing a unique work in clarifying the present world situation in a way that will be understood in all Latin American circles...