Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Living Age, she tried one year at Radcliffe, then studied with Georges Vitray in Paris, later at the Theatre Guild's defunct school under Winifred Lenihan. Critics, who had not seen her in Manhattan since 1932, applauded her sly caricatures of the U. S. scene, rated her less profound than Draper & Skinner, wittier than either. Some of the Howe Characters & Caricatures...
...Treasury for redemption after six months but not sold because Mr. Morgenthau does not want them to seep into bank portfolios. But just why a thrifty citizen should be expected to gobble up an unmarketable, low-yield, non-coupon bond while savings banks are solvent remained a profound Morgenthau mystery...
There can be no doubt that the authors are profound classical scholars, for on the very first page one finds the inspiring quotation "Omnibus ad ques hae litterae pervenerint Saintem." That they are cultured they prove by the quotations from Thomas Arnold, Bacon, Kant, and Moutaigue. A cultured shudder gently ripples down their sensitive spines as they forsee the end of the liberal arts tradition in the old school. We can almost see a wistful fear dropping upon the already damp paper as they plaintively ask, "Have you considered what would be thought by the other great teachers...
...sense must be in thorough sympathy. With its farewell to stodginess and political conservatism we are in particular sympathy. But with their "farewell to academic idealism" and their disparagement of "super-scholars" and their familiar cry for education aimed at the skull of the "average man," we are in profound disagreement...
...sleeper' for 26 years, a man removed from the world!" cried M. Ullmo. "What has pardon brought me? Am I favorably impressed by the changes which took place during my quarter century of exile? No! After six months in Europe, I depart forever. Oh, the profound, the illimitable stupidity of a human race which believes itself to be so superior...