Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that teachers encounter is considerable, even among the apparently sophisticated. After decades of reassurance, boys are still concerned about the putative effects of masturbation: does it really cause baldness, blindness, mental retardation, physical debility, or hairy palms? The relief at learning that none of these is true can be profound. Says a 13-year-old New Yorker: "When you find out that every other guy in the class does it and it's not all that unhealthy, you don't feel so bad any more." Homosexuality is currently a major concern of youngsters of both sexes, though most...
...high-camp, soft-sell show inside is quite another matter. For in choosing to combine levity with patriotism, the designers of the U.S. exhibit have let themselves in for a scorching controversy in which comments range from soaring praise ("a masterpiece of pleasing self-irony," "no less profound for its easy wit and beauty") to bruising brickbats ("a sterile disaster," "it stinks"). No one, it seems, is neutral...
...paintings of Morris Louis (1912-1962), temporarily on exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, embody the contemporary feeling of bewilderment at the task of understanding a world which continually eludes rational explanation. Although modern man's accuracy becomes greater and his reason more profound, the enigmas increase and the solutions recede even further. In the same way, Louis' mature paintings provide more questions than answers. The more the viewer attempts to structure the space and to define forms in the picture, the more elusive they become...
...faced embarrassment. The paper's management gave Karafin his severance pay-47 weeks worth-belatedly instructed all reporters to notify the company of any outside employment. One reporter who admitted doing freelance work for a public relations firm was warned to sever these ties immediately. And then "with profound sadness and bitter regret" the Inquirer published in this week's Sunday edition a ten-column story all about the mucky career of Star Reporter Harry J. Karafin...
...Park") and "If you take a walk at night/ carry a little silver, be prepared/ to think each shadow hides a knife or spar" ("The Vanity of Human Wishes"). The more significant parallels with Juvenal, however, lie in the Maine poems, where the wish "to break loose" is in profound tension with the wish to return to "when the universe was young" (if one takes the context of breaking loose as implying movement into the future...