Word: profound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royal Navy officer, tells in Captain Cook and the South Pacific. A three-year circumnavigation of the globe (1768-71), Cook's voyage added Australia, New Zealand and a number of South Pacific isles to the then known world. Narrated by Author Gwyther with seadog relish, authority and profound professional admiration, Cook's epic journeyings have the fascination of an Odyssey from Yorkshire...
Citation: "One of the great systematic theologians in recent history whose profound insight into the relations between religion and philosophy, psychology and the arts has made religion relevant to the spirit of modern...
...following after, bulldozed and occupied that realm with a power and majesty far beyond the strength of his doughty predecessor. Some of Author Hoffman's parallelisms are interesting contributions to Shakespearean scholarship. For the rest. The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" confirms but one thing-that profound snobbery is the main weakness of all anti-Shakespeareans. Deep-rooted in all Baconians, Oxonians, Marlovians, of every type, decade and nationality, is a chagrined refusal to have any truck with a man who never went through college...
...experts, were people who usually vote Socialist. Even so, Labor got 46.3% of the less than 27,000,000 votes. It represents a strong sentiment in the nation, but it lacks leadership, and its leadership lacks a program. Cockney Herbert Morrison, 67, a cheerful and clever but not very profound man, is in line for Attlee's leadership; after him comes the aggressive and younger (49) Hugh Gaitskell, who is able but brittle, admired but not loved. Both are violently anti-Bevan...
...posters, the papier decoupes and the decorative works, Matisse arrived at that "condensation" towards which his later paintings and drawings seemed to be moving. Its virtue are a profound simplicity of design and powerful use of color. A backlog of 50 years of technical knowledge imparts surety and strength to his childlike visions...