Word: profound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although one would not expect a decision of the Supreme Court to make a very profound impression on a twelve-year-old, last week one of my sixth-graders asked me: "Is it against the law to pray to pass my final exams...
...churches, added at least ten each year -primarily in the new suburbs. For Montini, the missionary task was to conquer through Christian love those "unhappy ones who gather behind Marx," to reassure them that, as Jesus "still loves them strongly, immensely, divinely," so the church supports "the profound need for a new and worthwhile life that is hidden in their souls...
...edition of Married Love, "Dr. Marie Slopes deals with subjects which are generally regarded as too sacred for an entirely frank treatment." Many a young heart thrilled with pleasant astonishment at Dr. Slope's revelation that "most women ... do at times feel a physical yearning indescribable, but as profound as hunger for food." Generations of schoolboys have plowed eagerly through the verbal thickets of Ideal Marriage, whose author, Dutch Gynecologist Theodoor H. Van de Velde, could write: "As the grade and locality of stimulation are different, according to the relative position of the two partners to one another...
...profound effect on the social fabric of America, quietly battling by due process, without moral or physical fear, the dragon of prejudice, armed with the law as his sword and the Constitution as his shield. Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense LL.D...
Geographically, Argentina's Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and Sweden's Ingmar Bergman are poles apart; esthetically, the two directors are quite close. Both record the contortions of provincial puritanism in a style of sensuous opulence. Torre Nilsson is less intense and less profound, but he has something vivid and ironic to say about a society in which women are fenced like cattle and cattle are allowed to run free...