Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cayatte suffers some confusions in his script, but he is fortunate in his principals -Aznavour, Rivière and Trantow all play with clarity, sensitivity, restraint. As is customary in a conte moral, the film simplifies life to teach a lesson, but in this case the lesson is profound: True freedom is the freedom to do good...
Second, the O.A.S. opposes de Gaulle because of profound contempt for the man himself, not just his policy. They consider him a traitor because of his policies, yes; but they reserve their strongest feelings of dislike for his autocracy and pomposity. In this, they are curiously close to the political regulars of Paris; but the differences are naturally more striking. In helping to bring him to power three-and-a-half years ago, the extremists in the Army hoped to end what it considered the futile game of French parliamentary politics. They considered France's indulgence in that game...
...many Capitol Hill denizens as the Throne Room, the lights on the telephone console still flicker on and off as Democratic Senate leaders call to report on the latest state of legislative affairs. Everything seems the same; yet nothing really is, for the past 13 months have seen a profound change in the life of Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson...
These ambiguities reveal the profound compromises behind the policy statement and the peace march itself. They suggest a false and unhealthy effort to be explicit on issues on which the group does not agree. Such doctrines are almost certain to appear politically naive and unrealistically hypothetical when couched in single sentence summaries...
More common perhaps is the part scholarly, part practical instruction which Fine Arts concentrators for example, seek in Feininger's courses. There technical understanding of artistic methods can lead to a more profound study of the masters...