Word: profound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Relieved Sigh. Ike's letter expressing "profound regret" at Humphrey's resignation was heartfelt, for from their first meetings he and Humphrey had understood each other. The President was pleased that, before leaving Washington (probably to take over the board chairmanship of Pittsburgh's National Steel Corp., which he helped found in 1929), Humphrey will see the 1958 budget through Congress. But many an Eisenhower Republican breathed a sigh of relief when the White House announced, well in advance of the fact, that Humphrey's successor will be former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert B. Anderson...
Sargant's Battle for the Mind has been extravagantly praised, not by fellow psychiatrists but by big-name laymen and critics, e.g., Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Critic V. S. Pritchett, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr ("fascinating and profound"). Actually, plausible though it sounds, Sargant's thesis is based on shaky premises. He accepts uncritically the Pavlovian view that the brain and nervous system are something "which man shares with the dog and other animals." In effect, the human brain, probably because of its greatly enlarged cerebrum and vastly multiplied nerve junctions, is different in quality...
...Across the U.S. the editorial writers noted his passing, and even his professional journalistic enemies seemed sorry, in a way, to see him go. Manila and Madrid praised him, London and Paris derided him, Moscow fumed at him. Harry Truman said that he was "very sorry." Dwight Eisenhower extended "profound sympathy" to the widow, sent around a personal message as well...
...judgment." Psychiana, a mail-order course in positive thinking, showed how "pathetic an expedient" it was when it collapsed completely upon Founder Frank B. Robinson's death in 1948. As for the doctrine of the ubiquitous Witnesses: "What response but horror can there be to this conversion of profound myth to lurid legend"-the bloody Armageddon which they eagerly anticipate between 1970 and 1980. The eclecticism of Unity (a self-help faith) and Baha'i (a world brotherhood offshoot of Islam) "amounts to metaphysical and theological hodgepodge. And the history of each involves bitterness and schism that matches...
...Liszt of the Piano Concerti and Borodin may as well be heard once in a while though. It is entertaining, if not profound, music; and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has shown that it can do some very entertaining playing. If they continue to play with as much energy and idiomatic sympathy as they did Friday night, no one will complain of a lack of intonation, or an occassional misentry...