Word: profound
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Since then (1957), the former president of Harvard seems to have had a profound change of heart. Besides himself, he bitterly blames the rest of the educational "establishment," notably the National Education Association, for actively silencing the discussion of segregated education. He blames them also for slighting the problems of metropolitan school system, for impeding legislation like that which would give teachers of academic subjects higher salaries, and for their generally conservative activity; but it is his charge on segregation that is the most vehement...
When Hammarskjold expounds on such themes, he is at his least interesting. Doubtless what he says is true, but it is also platitudinous; surely no one reading that "there is a profound causal relationship between the height of a man's ambition and the depth of a man's fall" will thrill at the keenness of the insight. The Hammarskjold revealed by observations like this is still the conscientious public servant that we have always seen...
PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY-29 East 36th. Thirty-five Rembrandt etchings include nearly all of the landscapes he did in the medium, and eight self-portraits, ranging from a view of the uncombed but aspiring artist at 24 to the profound self-analysis that marked his later views of himself (through Jan. 16). The library also has a fine selection of old master drawings, highlighted by a rare Leonardo...
Considering the variety of talent it employs, the New Republic maintains a strikingly consistent and distinct writing style. Searching for a description of it brings to mind only contradictory accolades: authoritative and relaxed, facile and profound. The paradigm for the style is TRB's elegantly folksy column, which invariably eschews logic and statistics to come right to the point. Even when the point is a tired one, the freshness of TRB's verbal stream brings new clarity to the matter by rinsing away all the moss and scum of confusion: "Maybe it's unfortunate, but about the only counterweight...
Whether it was Radcliffe's example or their own profound change of heart, the Faculty changed horses in 1956, endorsing Stevenson by a hearty vote of 2-1. But by this time, no one in the University was still supporting the Republican: no one, that is, except the Business School and the freshman class...