Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holst, an Englishman and a pupil of Sir Seavy Stanford, has taken a profound interest in English folk songs and carols. He has made a large number of arrangements of them, several of which are to be sung tonight. His original compositions are known throughout the world. The Planets is thought to be one of the most effective of modern orchestral works. The "Hymn of Jesus" was performed before a number of enthusiastic audiences two years ago by the Glee Club. Many of his other things such as "the Ballet of the Perfect Fool" are becoming increasingly well known. Gustav...
...Bradford, 68, biographer (Damaged Souls, Darwin, The Quick & The Dead); after lingering illness; in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Eighth in lineal descent from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, he termed himself a "psychographer." Critics called him "the U. S. Lytton Strachey," rated him less urbane and epigrammatic but more profound. An essayist and editorialist (for the Boston Herald), he said: "My biographical work is laborious and hard. . . . But plays and novels! It's easy and fun to write them. . . . That's what . . . I've done year after year without much encouragement." Biographer Bradford, though sickly...
...person of Mr. George M. Cohan; on the other hand Mr. Eugene O'Neill, whose forbears must hall from a very different part of Ireland, will probably never write as good an evening's entertainment as Mr. Cohan manages to turn out with annual regularity. His plays are never profound, never very original; with a fair amount of practice one can almost invariably guess what is going to happen next. But the point is that one doesn't mind, one rather likes it, in fact...
...crowned his career by writing Faust, a poem into which he poured a lifetime of erudition, inspiration and philosophy. If the German people have a "national poem" it is Faust.* The Emperor Napoleon, to whom Genius Goethe was presented at the zeniths of their careers, engaged him in profound conversation for some time, then implanted the seal of French approval by exclaiming, "Voila un homme?There...
...Nations "if its commission [now investigating Manchuria] continues to show ignorance of Far Eastern conditions." Demanding that more Japanese troops be sent to Manchuria, General Araki said (as nearly as his flowerings can be translated) : "The problems confronting the Empire's defense arm are of such magnitude and profound importance as to transcend those of our Siberian expeditions in 1918 [when Japanese and other Allied troops penetrated far into Soviet territory]. From certain viewpoints the present situation is even more serious than the Russo-Japanese...