Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics; the material in the Advocate manifests a troubling coherence. Many of the pieces are acts of prudence. In the best of them this becomes a systematic, if not willful, deference to modernity in choice of theme, form and language. In the worst it appears as the author's profound unwillingness to make himself responsible for his work. These failings, moreover, seem to be endemic to the Advocate. An issue of the Lion Rampart, also published this week, was bolder on every level...
...hesitated to model the Globeafter his own personality. In style, he is the archetypical American rogue, some-what of a Harry Truman in shirtsleeves. He wants to put out a paper with flair, with a slightly flippant attitude. He has what can only be described as a profound appreciation for reckless headlines: he still likes the one run in 1959 when Rockefeller stepped out of the 1960 Republican race--"Rocky Won't Roll." Looking at the old headline a few weeks ago when Rockefeller again withdrew, Winship smacked the desk appreciatively and declared, "Isn't that good...
Everywhere I have campaigned I have sensed a deep uneasiness about the war and about the quality of our leadership. It flows from a profound and growing conviction that something is wrong with the direction of American society...
Dada and surrealism, now half a century old, were not merely episodes or aberrations in the history of art, but part of its mainstream development, perhaps more profound and influential than any other style of the century. Now that the fusillades have died away on the barricades, the Museum of Modern Art's carefully winnowed exhibit of 340 paintings, sculptures, collages and assemblages is intended to show just what has survived that is genuinely entitled to be preserved in museums...
...might feel that in prison we've paid our debt," says Burris, "but we know the community doesn't think so. Doing time is not enough-we have to give back to the community." And that may be the most profound point. The goal of crime prevention can be reached partly by attacks on crime-breeding social conditions, partly by creating more efficient police and courts. But also vital is a new concept of mutual reconciliation between convict and community: the outcast must be allowed to earn his way back and thereby learn to believe in himself...