Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showed much foresight in naming this dog Sorrow. First, so that after the dog dies, is stuffed and falls out of an airplane into the sea, the earnest young narrator can say "Sorrow floats." Later on in the movie this useful beast is at the heart of another equally profound statement when our young narrator says mournfully, "Love also floats." The problem with the movie is that everything floats on the surface with nothing substantial enough to prevent us from drowning...
...Minister Joe Clark fell soon thereafter, the phoenix-like Trudeau was back in power again. In short order he defeated efforts by Quebec Premier René Lévesque to win a referendum on negotiations toward independence for the province. Then, in what may prove to be his most profound achievement, Trudeau overrode powerful opposition from several provincial factions to win a revamping of Canada's constitution, including the addition of a charter of civil rights. More recently, he embarked on a well-meant but unsuccessful campaign to ease East-West tensions, calling for arms reductions and a summit...
...reputation for liberalism should decide that things have gone too far is not really news. The call for a pause in the frantic assault on the limits of decency (beyond which lies the terra cognita of what used to be taboos) is the quite natural expression of a profound disappointment with the reality, as opposed to the promise, of unrestricted freedom. There are pushes and pulls in the life of the national superego, and now there is a pulling-back. Many are prepared to make expression a bit less free in order to make their community a bit more whole...
...Earth will be decided by split-second decisions by U.S and Soviet computers. Mutually Assured Destruction was achieved years ago. The push to go any further beyond that point indicates an unwillingness to understand the difference between bows and arrows and nuclear weapons. Such an unwillingness points to a profound indifference to life. In that indifference. I suggest that our President represents a minority opinion. Bob Strempel
...Harvard would warn white South Africa that the American Establishment is not behind them. Divestiture would demonstrate that America's greatest university, whose president has said for years that investment in South Africa is at worst morally ambivalent, now believes that there is no option in South Africa besides profound structural change. Divestiture could help persuade white South Africa that it must surrender as Ian Smith's Rhodesia surrendered, peacefully and without reservation, or face the horrible tragedy of race warfare in which thousands of innocents, Black and white, would die. If Harvard can help in any way to persuade...