Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk, of course, was witty and waspish, pithy and pulverizing, often profound; but "the slovenly particularities" of the man were never forgotten by Directors Alan Schneider and Seymour Robbie, or by Makeup Man Bob O'Bradovich, who helped make Peter Ustinov's Johnson the goutiest, twitchingest, most scarred and scrofulous hulk of a man ever to wobble across the TV screen. It took 36-year-old British Actor Ustinov two hours to glue down his beard, stuff himself with padding, and secure the five-piece foam latex mask that had been modeled on Sir Joshua Reynolds' celebrated...
...books about Blake appear each season. Critically, none has bettered Albert Roe's profound study of the artist's illustrations for Dante, published in 1953 (Princeton University; $20). But the new Complete Writings of William Blake (Nonesuch Press-Random House; $12.50) fills a basic need. Most spectacular is a 2-ft.-high volume of Blake's illustrations for the Bible, sponsored by the Blake Trust and distributed in the U.S. (by Philip Duschnes) at a stiff $95 a copy...
...suspended the word in the air, limp and profound. "A vegetable," he repeated. "All I have left is a pocket of pennies, little memory pennies." A sound--almost...
Though no philosophy particularly excites them, existentialism-especially that of the early Camus-comes closest. But some professors have profound doubts as to whether young Americans really understand what existentialism is all about. A Princeton professor recently told a student: "Your generation hasn't the foggiest conception of existentialism. Kierkegaard and Pascal seem merely to be chic in cocktail conversation...
Rather than being narrow, classical civilization extended for fifteen hundred years, included two basic literary tongues and the basic thought of almost every every sphere of human knowledge, and has left a profound imprint on all succeeding cultures. Both modern democracy and Marxist communism have their theoretical origins in classical thought...