Word: profound
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...least, taken aback. When election returns subsequently showed that on $2,000 and the disarmament issue William Meyer had broken the 104-year Republican hold on Vermont's Congressional seat, there was a good deal of incredulous blinking. And when Meyer loomed up in the House calling for a profound re-examination of the government's Cold War efforts, the Congress and the whole country began stirring in response to his new and disturbing ideas. Some of these are now widely held, and the Congressman wryly observes that no one will now condemn his opposition to nuclear testing, although this...
WHILE economists disagree on the immediate future course of U.S. business (see State of Business), they all agree on one basic premise: the U.S. economy has undergone such a profound change in recent years that the old tools to measure its size and health are no longer adequate. The biggest sector of the economy is no longer the production of such tangibles as appliances, cars, houses; it is the performance of services, ranging from medical checkups to European trips and cha-cha lessons. In this new economy, there are 33 million employed in performing services compared to only 27 million...
Although she is an accomplished pianist. Germaine has no profound love for music -or for anything else-and it is merely a whim that brings her to a clattering New Zealand town to study with a master who is himself an exile there. She meets him: "'Give me some more of that wine Léon.' I investigate the state of my hair. 'I feel better now.' I watch the green-clad form humbling and anxiously pouring my wine not spilling any this time taking the greatest care. Can't you men be pathetic? Especially...
Lockspeiser, who has written a biography of Debussy, said "his life-long obsession" with the writings of Poe influenced the "musical psychology" of his works, especially Peleas et Mellgande, La Cathedrale Engloutle and La. Mer. Poe's fascination with dreams and sexual symbolism cast a "subtle and profound influence over his works," and two of them, The Devil in the Belfry and The Fall of the House of Usher, so affected the composer that he used them as the basis of two never-completed operas...
...present nor for the future is it wholly to be dismissed. If of the good will between Africans and Europeans, it is also a key fact that, at least for politically consicous Nigerians, resentment of colonialism and of any hint of racial, social, or political inferiority is the profound emotional driving force behind the demand for equality, dignity, and independence. The white man's rule has been lauded in many articles and speeches and there is gratitude for the extensive experience of self-government which Nigeria has been given, but there is also abhorrance of alien colonial domination. While...