Word: profound
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...midst of the Harberger controversy, the same President Bok tells us that the quality of scholarship of an appointee is considered from "political, moral, or ideological considerations." My sense of snock is profound...
...separate committee. Though it is unclear what stand the N.C.C. will take, its officials are trying to sound conciliatory. Says Jones: "Relationships with our Jewish friends must be kept at the very closest level." But Rabbi James Rudin, the American Jewish Committee N.C.C. observer for eight years, feels "profound dismay" over the panel's work to date and demands that the council repudiate the P.L.O.'s "continuous, unbroken resort to terrorism, to national genocide...
...reinforced his claim to leadership of the Third World. He has taken largely unformed young Africans and Latin Americans from a peasant society and turned them into disciplined young technicians, thoroughly indoctrinated in the tenets of Marxism-Leninism. Inevitably, the graduates of the Isle of Youth will have a profound impact on the spread and consolidation of socialist movements in troubled nations for many years to come...
There are doubtless profound cultural reasons for such anger: the aggressive self-regard of the era now perhaps passing, the centrifugal individualism, the loss of authority, the sense of alienation from "the System," a precipitous disenchantment that tended to discredit all rules, including those of social behavior. It is possible that the price of a certain amount of personal liberty is excess and mess, all the frictions and bad smells generated by social change and people exercising their constitutional rights. Jefferson had an idea that democracy should be genteel, but it did not work out that way. And today, there...
These are tap masters: Green slides in subtle steps, the soul dancer of the three, smooth, profound. Briggs adds a Hollywood flash. He waggles his hips as he taps, throws in a little jump, grins like a self-satisfied, grown-up L'il Rascal. Amazingly, the Sandman outsteps his friends, dancing like Ali if Ali had been a dancer, cool, hustling, full of street energy and showmen's finesse, heel to toe, over and over in a thousand combinations. Nierenberg's camera captures each...