Word: profound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials hotly denied that any discrimination had been involved; the management insisted that there had really been "a lack of room." But the government seemed more inclined to accept Premier Adams' interpretation of the incident. Last week the External Affairs department sent a note to Barbados expressing "the profound apologies of the government for any inconvenience or slight suffered by the Premier." Said Chief of Protocol H.F.B. Feaver: "We deplore any display of racial discrimination...
...will develop into a full-scale revival remains to be seen. Evaluations of Bruckner's work range from the sneers of "Stravinskyites" to the gauche adulation of New Yorker critic Winthrop Sargent. The score exhibits many virtues of late Romantic music-a large yet skillfully employed orchestra, unhackneyed melodies, profound knowledge of traditional form and its potential for variation. Yet Bruckner's fondness for symphonic rhetoric and undeniable long-windedness try the patience of many. He writes too many thundering climaxes, too many horn calls, too many notes. The limited expressiveness of his melodies simply fails to justify their colossal...
...segregation disturbances . . .certainly must be edifying to non-American readers the world over, especially here in the Middle East, where the inhabitants' skin color is usually a shade or two darker than those lofty-browed Anglo-Saxon types in the photographs accompanying your [Oct. 11] article . . . What a profound impression this must make-these Americans, always broadcasting about freedom and equality and the "American way of life" and what a great little country we are . . . As an American living abroad, I find myself wondering about my countrymen, especially that superior breed of bigots south of the Mason-Dixon line...
...Book's Lesson. The Alsopian myth that the hydrogen-bomb controversy is part of an antiscience, anti-intellectual crusade could do profound damage in this country. There is bound to be-and there is indeed-trouble between intellectual principles and any government of a great modern state. The governments deal with terrible responsibilities of the here and now. The intellectual deals with truths that transcend national boundaries...
Indeed, if Dartmouth men by the beginning of their senior year, have nothing more in common to discuss than Hanover weather, and last Saturday's football game, it is questionable whether a weekly discussion of a current issue will instill profound thought into such apparent intellectual douldrms...