Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Saturday Mr. Aldrich Durant, the University Business Manager, fell victim to the faulty architecture. What Mr. Durant exclaimed as he lost his balance remains a mystery. Eye witnesses refuse to divulge any account of his remarks. Evidently the-occurrences must have made a profound impression, however. Yesterday morning in places of the old sudden drop just within the doorway, a shiny new platform sloping gently to the floor greeted the entrants. Thus the old landmarks pass. Thus the power of important men is utilized to rectify the faults in our slowly advancing civilization...
...witnessing an unmistakable trend towards cultural autocracy, it is extremely interesting to consider this volume written by Mr. Vaughan Williams, an English composer best known in America for his "London Symphony." In it he propounds the thesis that music is not the "universal language," but is rather a profound expression of a nation's soul...
...arts with the democratic spirit in politics. The lack of culture in the ruling mob he believes is one impetus to the success of modernistic art which panders to the naive mass of uncultured culture seekers. He believes that the phenomenon of this new art presents a problem for profound study by psychologists. "The deification of ugliness and obscenity, the urge for mutilation, deformation, muddy color and exaggeration, are all symptoms," he says, "of sadism, indicating a form of psychopathiasexualis...
This produced in Rome profound explosions of Fascist wrath. At the Dictator's press bureau, run by his affable son-in-law Count Gelasio Ciano, the official spokesman said furiously of Abyssinia's Emperor "He was 'being smart!' Our Minister to Abyssinia has informed the Abyssinian Government that their unilateral effort will not stand...
This represented a profound change in mood on Mr. Borah's part. Last year the great individualist opposed the cotton and tobacco control bills. But last year he made a mistake by being asleep at the political switch when AAA put a "compensatory" tax on jute sacking in which Idaho farmers bag their potatoes. This year he wishes to avoid mistakes, for next year he faces an election. Next year Mr. Brewster also faces an election and his constituency includes Aroostook County where, because of potato prices, the current relief bill is $100,000 a month and going...