Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemporary Americans to shoulder global responsibilities as an outgrowth of that revolutionary vision. The greatest lesson of the Revolution, he says, is a tolerance for change: "To that radically reshaped world in which we live, the message of the American Revolution is as relevant as its meaning is profound...
...master caricaturist often made himself a subject, and his distinctively blunt features can be seen in many of his paintings and drawings. But his second presence in The Family of Charles IV gives ironical depth to an already profound picture. By stripping away his own mask of detachment and presenting a self as warped by passion as any of his royal subjects, the artist seems to suggest that whatever frailty they symbolize, it is one that he cannot pass judgment upon...
...premise that insofar as a novel or play says anything significant about life, it has a religious meaning-which the theologian has as much right to explicate as a critic. Says Chicago's Scott: "The great canon of modern literature is a repository of an enormously profound insight into what it means to be human. It is through the study of literature that some of the most genuine and revealing points of contact between religion and art are likely to be found in our time...
...character that emerges is not altogether attractive, especially for those whose image of Tolstoy is based solely on reverential readings of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. The ideas and emotions that clashed in those masterpieces warred within Tolstoy himself, sending him into cycles of sublime creativity and profound depression. To Tolstoy, reality always differed from hopes and dreams, and it was axiomatic to his art that life would be most disappointing to those characters who had the highest qualities. In his own life, that same axiom became a self-fulfilling prophecy...
With each passing year, Rodin emerges more clearly as the most profound, most expressively varied sculptor since Michelangelo, and here is a book that demonstrates why. In one superb photograph after another, the reader can trace the astonishing career of an artist who, though basically in the great classic tradition of Western sculpture, broke through formal bonds all his life. The text, an admirably incisive critique, enhances this tribute to Rodin on the 50th anniversary of his death...