Word: profound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...objectivist speaker barraged the ear with one generality after another to the great cheer and awe of the crowd. Some classic examples of his profound wisdom: "A is A," "Existence exists," "Freedom is the right for man to think" and--my favorite--"The good man lives, thinks, produces and respects others." He highlighted his otherwise vacuous talk with some select quotes from Rand's fiction and tossed in a few textbook points from Kant and Aquinas to make it all seem more legitimate, i.e. academic. Of course, the audience members, waving their well-thumbed copies of The Fountainhead, furiously shook...
According to objectivism, there is no room for discourse. Professor Kennedy remarked that because the answers to profound questions are always elusive, we should maintain an open dialogue. But Binswanger and his mob-squad would have none of it. By evening's end, it was made clear that objectivism had a monopoly on truth...
...Hill family's new rodent friends add insult to a more profound injury...
...STREETS (CBS) Ken Olin's thirtysomething days are long gone. Here he's a desperate detective--the central figure in one of the more profound crime dramas ever to hit a television screen. Lyrically bleak in tone, EZ Streets is a haunting meditation on moral ambiguity, on city politics and--most effectively--on fate. Alas, the dismally rated series was abruptly canceled after two airings. Alone, perhaps, we anxiously await its scheduled return next year...
...shop either did not inform the mechanics of the problem or at the very least did not verify that their work was done correctly. The higher-ups wanted a scapegoat, and naturally the "little guy" was the easiest prey. Mueller's suicide only adds to the profound sorrow we feel over an accident that should never have happened. DAVID R. LOWRY Wellesley, Massachusetts...