Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mormon hierarchy appeared ready to endorse the John Birch Society earlier this year, but after pressure from one group of church elders, "stepped back from the abyss." In an implicit criticism of the church's policy of barring Negroes from its priesthood, Mormon Karl Keller describes the profound spirituality of the American Negro in an essay on a civil rights project in Tennessee...
...political entity in the 18th century, though plagued by North-South conflict. With the penetration of the French, it was divided into the colonial units of Tongking, Annam and Cochinchina. Today's South Viet Nam consists of most of Annam plus Cochinchina, a fact that has profound political implications because of historical differences between the regions...
...couldn't care less. But he's crying on the inside, warming a cold old hope of playing with the pros. What happens to his hope is fast, funny, touching and, as Mack's life dribbles aimlessly toward a goal it will never make, profound. With a sort of sneaky reverse-layup poetry, Neugeboren illuminates one of the great and terrible questions of life: "What happens when you can't do the thing you love...
...Francisco last week, Columnist Herb Caen reported overhearing Novelist Herbert Gold describe how the TIME Essay is written. Researchers first dredge up all the quotations on a subject, he explained, "after which they are fed into a computer, and then a senior editor presses the button marked 'Profound...
...theater in his own image, and it wears two masks and a thousand faces. The mask of tragedy says weep-and bear it. The mask of comedy says grin-and bear it. The theater is witness and partner to man's endurance. Tawdry or frivolous, gallant, polemical or profound, the theater is the place where man speaks to man about man in his living presence...