Word: profound
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...more fundamental question is whether the Khrushchev line denotes only a temporary, tactical change in Communism or a more profound one. All Communists, no matter of what stripe, still share the aim of defeating capitalism; but this statement, while as true as ever, is no longer a sufficient analysis of the situation. Some of the metamorphoses that Communism has undergone may have begun as tactical moves which in effect make Communism more attractive, but may end up meaning more-for example, Yugoslavia's compromises with free enterprise, the Italian Communist Party's championship of the small businessman...
That the military was determined to work a profound change was clear almost from the start. Acting President Mazzilli discovered as much when he lightly greeted General Artur da Costa e Silva, 61, the army's senior ranking officer, as "my dear minister." Replied the general crisply: "I would be honored to be your minister, Mr. President, but it so happens that I am not. I am the commander in chief of the armed forces which won a revolution...
...finally ambiguous as the earlier Puritan one, but it shared the same energy, and it expressed itself in a series of irreplacable books. Miller's abrupt inspiration on the banks of the Congo in 1926, what he called a "sudden epiphany," moved him--drove him, really--toward a surpassingly profound re-definition of the elusive American mind. In the process, in his New England "laboratory," he began to work out his own technique for the study of the history of ideas. As the legend grows, what he achieved may be obscured by the style with which he achieved...
Revisions in theology start inconspicuously enough-usually as footnote-laden articles in grey, learned journals with modest circulations. Future church historians may well date a profound change in Roman Catholic thinking on marriage from the current issue of a scholarly Belgian periodical called Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, There, the Rev. Louis Janssens, 56, a respected professor of moral theology at the University of Louvain, cautiously endorsed oral contraceptive pills as a legitimate means of family limitation for Catholic couples...
...opening of "Three Generations of Wyeths," Jamie looked like a top-form prep-school student taken by his parents to inspect the college. But he is unlike any other 17-year-old in the country. His consuming motive-uncluttered by any profound education or knowledge of the world outside of Chadds Ford-is to paint with realism, humanity and technical brilliance. Unless his fast start proves his undoing, he seems certain to succeed...