Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plastic Surgery. Lip sync is symptomatic of a profound change that has gripped the recording industry. With each new advance in technology, the sound of recorded music-revved up reverberated, splintered, stirred, spliced, multiplied, filtered, equalized-passes further into a kind of aural twilight zone. For every hour that a classical or pop artist spends recording music today, technicians devote an average of four hours to doctoring it. The result, though few listeners realize it, is that the age of machine music is already here, and for better or worse it is reshaping the world of music making...
...President's viewpoint was well defined, of course, long before he encountered Barbara Ward's blueprint for what she calls "the good society." Yet, marvels Johnson, her book "excites and inspires me" with every reading. His admiration does not go unrequited. Says Barbara Ward: "His profound and compassionate understanding of the roots of poverty gives a unique dimension to the leadership he offers the world...
Fateful Friendship. But to Joe's profound dismay, his daydreams do not come true. No fur-lined apartments, no nymphomaniacal millionairesses. Pretty soon he runs out of money and sells himself to a homosexual schoolboy-who takes his pleasure but then cannot pay. Too gentle to take revenge, too stupid to see what is coming, Joe sinks into demoralized destitution. But in the depths he finds a friend, a bright-eyed young cripple named Ratso, and for the first time in his life he is happy. Not for long. The cripple dies of general debilitation, and as the book...
Gentle Wisdom. As always, Catton deals gently with the profound errors in generalship that, on both sides, tragically upped the cost in blood. The worst he can find to say of the Union's Ben Butler, who never once did the right thing on any battlefield, is that his "military operations defy rational analysis...
...that Hesse is essential to their ethos. It will not be easy. Hesse is relentlessly esoteric-one of those Faustian fellows who make Moholes out of moleholes. Yet in the judgment of most German critics, he is one of the purest lyric poets since Moerike, and among the most profound of the many novelists who elaborate the drama of modern man in search of his soul...