Word: profound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reflect what Author McCarthy regards as the persistent Venetian style and temperament-dry, succinct, tough-minded. In the 18th century, the last of the doges, handing the ducal cap to an attendant, remarked matter-of-factly, "I won't be needing this any more." Venice can boast no profound thinkers, no religious martyrs, no native-born legendary lovers. Of the world, worldly, it pursued wealth and reared up pleasure domes to become what Byron called "the revel of the Earth, the masque of Italy." But the Venetian eye was as "true as a jeweler's lens...
Every cent of Harvard's gift will be spent directly, immediately, by the World University Service for the relief of suffering students. The University will express next Monday and Tuesday a profound humanitarian concern for repressed Hungary...
...term almost all of the cast had been assembled and issued scores to learn over the summer. Through patronage a bank account developed--to the producer's profound relief...
...said of the U.S. marines in peacetime that their whines have tender gripes. But there was nothing normal last week about the bitter feelings of the members of the ready-for-action Fleet Marine Force and their wives and children stationed in and around Japan-except for the profound hope that the imminent arrival of Marine Commandant Randolph McCall Pate would bring relief from their painful problem. The problem: on prodding from Washington, Force headquarters had turned on the pressure to get marines to send home all dependents who had come to Japan on long-term visas, i.e., some...
...still cannot help feeling that there is something wrong with this play, and that, despite the grandeur of its conception, it never quite succeeds. At the end of the four hours, none of the pity and horror that a tragedy can project, actually develops, and I felt only a profound exhaustion. The people on the stage simply did not appear to matter very much at any time during the evening, even though the four members of the O'Neill family, thinly disguised under the name of Tyrone, are a fairly interesting lot. The head of the family, an aging...