Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alliance together, they argued, the U.S. should at the very least create the illusion of some movement in the stalled talks. Said a U.S. arms-control expert: "The Europeans are not severely rattled yet, but if there is no successful outcome to these negotiations, we will face a profound crisis in the alliance...
...poshlost, as the Russians say, an overheated lunge toward the profound, to think of Casablanca in terms of deeper allegory. Still, it is hard to resist delving for Jungian archetypes, primal transactions of the kind that lurk in, say, the Oedipus story (Here's looking...
...They are most visible ethnically and, above all, economically. The wealth of the U.S. and the poverty of Mexico are usually expressed in social and political terms: development and underdevelopment, the policies of American expansionism and Mexican defensiveness. This opposition is real enough, but the true difference is more profound. It has been apparent since the birth of the two societies, when the U.S. was New England and Mexico was called New Spain...
...left the fairy tales lying on the floor I of the nursery," wrote G.K. Chesterton, "and I have not found any books so sensible since." Graham Greene put it another way: "The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves...
...been drifting since 1979, when major heart surgery marked a downturn in Mr. B.'s energies, and that with clear direction it is now enjoying a burst of energy. Martins gets plentiful advice from Jerome Robbins, Balanchine's longtime colleague in choreography. The new job means a profound change in Martins' personal relationships: old bosses are equals, old pals are subordinates who must sometimes be disappointed. "It's a tough time now. We still think that Mr. B. will walk in Tuesday at 11," he says. He shifts the pillows under his back and adds...