Word: profound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aura of corruption arising from the hearing room of the U.S. Senate committee investigating labor racketeering last week began to show profound effects within and upon U.S. organized labor. Since the aroma emanated mostly-so far-from Frank Brewster, head of the Western Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (see box), it was the Teamsters who felt the first and greatest impact...
...outset of Hallmark Hall of Fame's production of There Shall Be No Night, Katharine Cornell posed grandly before the camera in an "eggplant-colored chiffon velvet hostess gown" by Valentina and said to Charles Boyer: "Say something thrilling, Karoly. Something profound." That was quite an order for even so formidable a talent as Boyer's, considering the staggering handicaps of the script. In his 90-minute TV adaptation of the Robert E. Sherwood play, Radio Writer Morton (The Eternal Light] Wishengrad shed little light on the character of the Nobel Prizewinning medical scientist who has a hard...
...soon becomes clear that these are not ordinary people. No ordinary widow would recall in print that on the night before the journey to the hospital, "weary, and suddenly very weak as he was, Wert made love to me. It was simple and mutual and profound...
...meaning teacher. *An esoteric system of speculation on metaphysics which went in for much symbolical manipulation of words and names. The cabala originated in Palestine but came under strong Babylonian influence between 500 and 900 A.D. Its best-known work, the Zohar, compiled in the 13th century, had a profound influence on Hasidism...
There is much one might question in its technique. The Proud and the Beautiful is never a pleasant or a saccharine film. But whether one thinks that the philosophy behind The Proud and the Beautiful and the way it is depicted are deeply profound, or mainly sound and fury, this remains an exciting and provoking film, and it is superbly performed...