Word: profound
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Adler's age: 84, a span that he reflects upon with profound satisfaction. "The greatest single piece of good fortune anyone can have," he says, "is work worth doing." To Adler, the essence of that work has been educational reform -- away from trendy relativism and back to absolute values, which he believes should be taught from kindergarten through graduate school. He especially deplores the contemporary notion that metaphysics is nonsense and that science and other subjects can be taught without reference to an individual's responsibility to society. "The lack of standards of right and wrong, good...
...down at my word processor, ready to write. Nothing came out. I was blocked. Blank. The most profound nothingness this side of Proust. I sucked in the primordial void and then barfed till all was meaninglessness, my brain a cranial subterranean pool of anti-meaning...
...absurdity of their ideas and appearance, the freaks in this film do seem to be free, if only in a very misguided way, and seem infinitely preferable to the straight-laced types they combat. It's hard to describe a film in which every other word is "man" as profound, but the wonderful mess that is Easy Rider may just deserve that adjective...
They called it cohabitation, and it began just before the Class of '74 converged on the nation's oldest and most staid institution of higher learning. It was, as Fran Schumer '74 illustrates in Most Likely to Succeed, to have a profound impact on the female members of the class, who found themselves grappling with the strange and tumultuous era of the Vietnam War and women's liberation, while at the same time trying to cope with traditional pressures to be slim and pretty, leaving the old boys' network to the boys...
Repin's genius was in capturing the inner worldof his subjects; in his portrait of his daughter,he uses a lighter palette to show the happy natureof the girl as she clasps a bouquet of flowers inan open field. Tolstoy, on the other hand, iscaptured in profound contemplation, theself-imposed simplicity of the author's later lifeaccented as much by his stance and costume as byhis countenance...