Word: profound
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Huntington stakes his book--a profound, superbly constructed argument--on the notion that this Harvard "moderate" was more typical of his generation than the Columbia "radicals." Young Levine's speech, he says, "had precisely caught the spirit of the decade. By and large, the struggles of the 1960s did not involve conflicts between partisans of different principles. What the 1960s did involve was a reaffirmation of traditional American ideals and values." Indeed, Huntington insists, the same is true of all four periods of activism ("creedal passion") in our history--the Revolutionary era, the Jacksonian period, the Progressive...
Linkage means making cooperation with Moscow in one area contingent on Soviet self-restraint in others. That proposition has a profound appeal for any American who ponders the dilemma of having to share the planet with a nation like the U.S.S.R. Soviet internal and foreign policies are anathema to American national interests and to universal humanitarian values. Yet the dangerous accumulation of thermonuclear weaponry by both superpowers makes it imperative that they try to get along. Therefore, even the most righteously anti-Soviet Secretaries of State almost always pick up where their predecessors left off, sitting down with the durable...
Four Friends is the most deadly Mind of escapism, because it truly believes its vacant depiction of the sixties to be a profound all encompassing statement...
Many West Bankers attribute the new Islamic movement not only to the antileftist backlash but to a more profound disillusionment with aspects of Western culture, such as movies, drinking and the changing relationship between the sexes, that have been imported into the West Bank since 1967. Says Ribhi Abu-Sinanah, dean of Hebron Polytechnic: "The Arab countries have been open to Western culture. This openness has resulted in nothing positive. We have been defeated." In general agreement, an Israeli political scientist remarks: "To some extent this phenomenon is the result of a widespread despair. The Palestinians don't want...
...jobless world is less familiar only because it is ordinarily more private, often downright obscure. The most obvious personal wounds of joblessness are often easy to spot, as in the language of Ronald Poindexter, 34, a Washington bricklayer out of work for six months: "I feel sick." But the profound wrench of unemployment is not often disclosed as plainly as in the reflection of Connie Cerrito, 52, of New York City, who last July lost the cosmetics factory position she had held for 35 years. Says Cerrito: "My job was my whole life. That...