Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, there was a great deal besides: the profound routines of motherhood and child raising (which Author Whipple does hardly better than average), her friend ship with mousy-haired Willie (which she does excellently), her whole life as a member of a Mormon community during its first intense decades...
...stays out of the war, said General Wood, he saw the possibility of a negotiated peace between Britain and Germany in the spring. If the U. S. should go in, he saw profound transformations in the political and economic system. Predicted General Wood...
Reiser's book is lucid, ambitious, profound. It was inspired by science's discovery of more things in heaven & earth than were dreamt of in former philosophies. "The time is ripe for a new philosophy," says Philosopher Reiser, and he hopes its main characteristics will be 1) a non-Aristotelian logic, 2) a theory of emergent evolution...
...minor language, his fame would have resounded with that of Carlyle, Nietzsche, Dostoevski. It was upon Kierkegaard's assertion of romantic individualism that Scandinavian literature in the last century rose to world-famed greatness and influence. He was the prototype of Ibsen's gloomy cleric, Brand. Profound also was his influence on Spain's late, great Catholic scholar, Miguel de Unamuno. Yet only in the last five years has more than an inkling of Kierkegaard been Englished. His most active American disciple, Walter Lowrie, waded into the Danish language solely to rescue Kierkegaard for a larger audience...
Having led with his chin, Benito Mussolini stuck it farther out than ever this week and defiantly broadcast to the world: "Greece is a tricky enemy. . . . Their hate is profound and incurable...