Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finding new ways to say it. She studied the "ex-teriorist" novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute and learned to create characters that are all skin and no insides. She tried her hand at avantgarde drama and learned to produce dialogue so obscure it passes for profound. She wrote several scripts (Hiroshima, Man Amour, Moderate Cantabile) for the French New Wave directors and learned to compose prose that reads like camera directions-possibly economical, certainly cheap. All these skills are brought relentlessly to bear in this collection of four short novels that profess to describe four different "modes...
...which he explained that McNamara "is a very bad advisor for President Johnson because he has very little understanding of South Vietnam's basic problems. A certain form of humanitarian socialism is essential. If you fear this word socialism, call it what you will. Essentially it is a profound social reform, beginning with agrarian reform." Pham's letter indicated that here at last was an alternative to the string of despots which the U.S. has supported in Saigon. Here was a liberal with a strong military background who might have resolved the dissident elements in Vietnamese politics...
From God to Government. Midwestern farmers still shake their heads over his program to raise hog prices by killing off millions of piglets. His later proposal to export farm surpluses to needy countries earned the derisive label of "milk for Hottentots." Nonetheless, Wallace had a profound understanding of farm economics at a time when U.S. agriculture was widely regarded as God's concern, not the Government...
...that encompasses all but his closest friends. "I did not enter into silence," Ezra Pound told one of those friends, French Publisher Dominique de Roux last week. "Silence captured me." De Roux, who will soon publish Pound's major work, Cantos, in French, says the silence indicates "a profound sense of remorse"-a remorse that has been growing deeper since 1958, when Pound was released from a Washington mental institution, where he was confined for twelve years after being indicted for treason because of his pro-Fascist World War II broadcasts from Italy. Now living in Venice, the Faustian...
...that closely adheres to the Biblical conception of the paradoxical coexistence of sin and grace, good and evil. This strong reassertion of the central paradox of the Gospels, wrote the Rev. D. R. Davies in his study of Niebuhr's thought, constitutes "one of the most vital and profound contributions to contemporary Christian thought." This concept is akin to the mystery of faith-in St. Paul's words, "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"-that formed, then and now, the cornerstone of Niebuhr's religious vision...