Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time literary editor of New Republic magazine, Kazin has been most acclaimed for "On Native Grounds," which had a profound effect of literary criticism after it was published in 1942. Kazin's most recent book, "New York Jew," is the final volume in a three-part, personal history, which details his life since he began writing as a freelance critic in the 1930s...
...with a good deal more equinamity than the idea that the most precious and inviolate of entities--personal relations--is actually a messy jangle of misapprehensions, at best an uneasy truce between powerful solitary fantasy systems. Even for especially) romantic love is fundamentally solitary, and has as core a profound impersonality. The concept of transference at once destroys faith in personal relations and explains why they are tragic--we cannot knew each other... A horrible kind of predestination hovers over each new attachment we form. 'Only connect,' E. M. Forster proposed. 'Only we can't,' the psychoanalyst knows...
...topic, and is cluttered with synthesizer of horns to the point of giving a headache. "Too much information in my brain," complains one song. "One world is enough for all of us," declares another (as opposed to three, get it?). The problem is that these two sentiments (neither very profound) are practically contradictory. In trying to make a record encompassing the whole world, the Police show how their knowledge and talent can get muddled by self-consciousness...
...interesting in a kind of off-off Broadway way. One can imagine trendy New York twittering about it for weeks - well, any way, days. And if the protagonists were, by nature, men of Shavian wit and intellectual range it might have worked. But they are merely fake profound, in the show biz manner. Their pose may be antitheatrical, but the pair are, in fact, theatrical in the very worst, or drama student, sense of the term...
...that is so, then gossip (whatever its individual destructiveness, which can be awesome-ask Othello) also serves as a profound daily act of community. In her novel Happy All the Time, Laurie Colwin has a character who prefers to call gossip "emotional speculation." Right. Through the great daily bazaar of bitchiness (men can be just as bitchy as women) passes a dense and bewildering parade of follies. They involve sex and money and alcohol and children and jobs and cruelty and treachery...