Word: profound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever else it is or is not. this is a book of profound patriotic piety which glorifies Arthur as the father of his country, and finds in the childlike wonder and faith of medieval England the crucible of future English greatness...
...perspective of history, involvement in the affairs of 81 other nations runs counter to a profound current in the nation's past. Over most of its history, the U.S. has seen overpowering wisdom in George Washington's farewell advice to take advantage of "our detached and distant situation" and "have as little political connection as possible" with foreign nations. Right down to World War II, many a U.S. citizen still believed that the nation's "distant situation," guarded from the Old World by two mighty oceans, made isolation the best policy...
...Gaulle's constitution would give France a form of government unique in the Western world, a curious casserole of traditional French, British and U.S. institutions seasoned with just a soupçon of Salazar's Portugal. Implicit in almost every clause of the draft version is a profound determination to clip the wings of the negative and vacillating National Assembly which, under the Fourth Republic, used its untrammeled power to make and smash 25 governments in twelve years. Under the projected Fifth Republic, the Assembly would meet for only 5½ months a year v. the present seven...
...editor at Manhattan's Random House publishing firm, editor of three Nobel prize-winning U.S. writers (Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner); of a heart ailment; in Princeton, N.J. "The role of the editor," said Saxe Commins, "is to be invisible"; yet his hidden persuasion had profound effect on modern American literature. Friend and editor of William Faulkner since Mosquitoes in 1927, Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production of A Fable and The Town...
...that they feel their lack of "roots" too desperately ("The worst scoundrel in Europe has roots"), that if success does not come at once, discouragement sets in. He believes that, influenced by a "popularized, anonymous positivistic philosophy," too many Americans are afraid to hold strong opinions. Maritain makes a profound observation about tolerance: "The man who says 'What is truth?', as Pilate did, is not a tolerant man, but a betrayer of the human race. There is . . . genuine tolerance only when a man is firmly and absolutely convinced of a truth . . . and when, at the same time...