Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questions and answers must merely meet the test of common sense. He exhaustively argues, for instance, that the metaphysical term "Being" is, in Dewey's phrase, a "zero word." The term, Hook says, "merely enables those who write obscurely and feel inchoate to imagine that they are being profound. It is a sophisticated substitute for the concept...
There are those who consider Field's assessment a bit generous. One longtime News staffer (Stuffy wishes he knew who) insisted that his boss was "as profound as a one-pound box of chocolates"; a former city editor has compared working for Walters to "being bitten to death by a duck." Robert M. Hutchins, who went on to become chancellor of the University of Chicago after helping Walters put out a paper for U.S. troops in Italy during World War I, has been even more outspoken. Some years ago Hutchins complained: "What can you expect...
...Creator of deathscapes," he called it. Like D. H. Lawrence, he was drawn to the "blood consciousness," and he felt that urban industrialized life cut man off from innocence, vitality and a piety before nature. On a brittle, sophisticated level, Lowry was weary of it all. On a more profound level, he felt the kind of metaphysical nausea that Poet Gerard Manley Hopkins expressed in the lines...
...five centuries. Hardest hit were 1,300 square miles of Rhine and Meuse delta lands in The Netherlands' southwest, where tidal surges roared up estuaries and rivers, shattered 67 dikes, drowned 1,800 people and engulfed 375,000 acres of farmlands. In the aftermath, the public alarm was profound, and engineers swiftly blueprinted a $650 million plan to safeguard the delta forevermore by damming up four of the region's principal sea arms (see map). Fortnight ago the Delta Plan marked its first milestone: the damming of the 2,000-ft.-wide Veersche...
Although the four pieces span only a half-century in time, they contrast greatly in style. While the Mahler songs express a profound disillusionment, the Bloch and Ravel struggle to retain vitality by assimilating new elements--jazz and modality--and the Kennan by Restricting its own scope...