Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a vital need today for "more profound research" in the social sciences declared Adoplh A. Berle, Jr. '13, yesterday morning in a speech at the annual meeting of the Harvard chapter of Phi Betta Kappa in Sanders Theatre...
...this is far indeed from the spirit of wholesome controversy which informed the old debate. The essence of an old-fashioned debate was its recognition that profound, even violent, disagreement was a natural part of the human and social process. It was habitual to speak of a debate as a fierce debate or a hot debate, and these adjectives were used, not disparagingly, but in admiration. Adversaries are no more, except-if you will-on programs like those of Mike Wallace or John Wingate, where there is but a shallow pretense of intellectual substance. The panel has moderated them...
...high-wind group, the fire group, and the rocket or levitation group. Fireworks are popular and have been deemed sufficiently refined even for Grace Kelly films. Earthmoving was the unique contribution of Ernest Hemingway. Now, in the language of jacket blurbs, how "bold, frank, fearless, honest, realistic, and profound" can you get? Just about every possibility you can think of in sex has been boldly, frankly, and interminably, explored. Many writers are deluded into thinking that a four-letter word vocabulary, carefully detailed scenes of undressing, and clinically direct anatomical descriptions add up to a profound study of the relations...
Mission. In an emergency broadcast, Pflimlin proposed to defend the republic by changing it peaceably: "It is necessary to make a profound reform in our institutions," he said, "but the changes must be carried out in a state of legality and respect for our public interests. If they were carried out by violence, our country would be torn tragically apart. Order and the laws of the republic are the sole safeguard of the unity of the nation...
...morale. Before the desecrated altar of a shattered church, Rosetta is raped by a squad of French Moroccan soldiers. Her traumatic reaction is to become indiscriminately promiscuous. Cesira, in turn, is reduced to robbing one of her daughter's slain paramours. At novel's end, only the profound Latin conviction that the first duty of life is to go on living keeps the two women sane as they travel the long road back to Rome...