Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lecture, Oppenheimer said that his idea of the unity of science was not at all like that of Laplace, who thought that an observer knowing exactly the present state of the entire universe could predict exactly the future. This notion, he said, was inconsistent in a "deep, profound sense" with the nature of the world and man's knowledge...
...real deficiency in the Administration's plan involves its giving the Cabinet the power to pass on the Vice-President's right to accede temporarily or otherwise. As the Cabinet, not in any sense an elective group, has historically shown either deep allegiance to the President or equally profound disagreement with him, it is not the proper body to make such a decision...
...unfortunate effect which the more incomprehensible plays of the experimental schools may have on the art of the theater is to bring about confusion between the profound and the merely obscure. It would probably be unkind to suggest that either the audience at the Yale festival, which for the most part seemed to enjoy all the productions, or those people who selected the plays to be produced were suffering from such a form of confusion. But after three days the surfeit of obscurity did have a somewhat soporific ecect...
Critics have blasted the play as a primitive Kydian horror drama, full of murder but totally empty of any more profound Shakesperean qualities. The critics exaggerate--less about the murders, which are truly abundant and dominant, than about the alleged lack of anything else. Although Shakespeare is particularly blunt in Titus, he still creates a drama whose vigor and clear foreshadowing of Lear, Hamlet and Iago should be respected, and cannot glibly be tossed aside...
...laboratory for the university. But even if these dreams never come true, Hiroshima will not soon forget him. Wrote one university professor on learning of his coming departure: "I lost my father and all my property in the A-bomb attack, but I have, through Mr. Fotouhi's profound character, come to feel that his remaining here is desired not only for the sake of the U.S. but for the welfare of mankind...