Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Census from 1961 to 1965, Scammon, 52, comes to his role steeped in statistics and unafraid of conclusions. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a longtime Minnesota friend, calls Scammon "one of the smartest men in town," adds: "He isn't just a statistician-he's a profound and deep student." British Political Scientist Harold Laski, under whom Scammon studied for a year at the London School of Economics, pronounced him "the ablest American student I ever had." CBS's Washington Commentator Eric Sevareid, a University of Minnesota classmate, ascribes a "flypaper memory" to Scammon, says...
...Whether it be on the stage or onscreen, Sandy Dennis projects a quiet power, a profound dramatic intensity that overwhelms...
Between Independence Day and Labor Day, a profound malaise overcame the American people. A kind of psychological Asian flu, it has as its overt symptoms bewilderment about...
...time in Florence by Piero della Francesca. His was strictly a two-dimensional world. As if straining to portray flesh-and-blood emotion, he gave his people big noses, pudding faces, puffy eyelids, and the result was often close to caricature. He himself was not capable of the profound humanity expressed by Flanders' Rogier van der Weyden, nor does his dry decorative line even suggest the sublimely anguished figures of his countrymen to come, Dürer and Grünewald...
...from where the world is; its methods are antiquated, its concerns circumscribed, its outlook timid and unimaginative. Also, too much seminary teaching is stifled by conformity to canonical requirements, which encourages routine repetition, dogmatism, evasion of current issues and lack of reflection on matters of profound concern...