Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Western Europe, disillusioned Communist sympathizers turned away in nausea. Destroyed also was the 1984 fantasy that a whole generation could be taught to believe that wrong was right, or could be emptied of all integrity and curiosity. But his greatest triumph was moral: he demonstrated the profound and needful truth that humanity is not necessarily forever bound and gagged by modern terrorist political techniques. Thus he gave to millions, and specifically to the youth of Eastern Europe, the hope for a foreseeable end to the long night of Communist dictatorship...
Ashen pale, Ben-Gurion said: "I feel it my duty on behalf of the government, the police force and myself to express our profound concern that such an act has been possible here-an act which strikes a blow at the most sacred foundations of human morality drawn from Israel's Torah...
Adler came closer to this cosmic ex perience. He called it "social feeling," and through it "gained a profound and intimate connection with life." This, suggests Progoff, sprang from his extravert nature, just as his theory about "organ inferiority" leading to compensation, and often overcompensation, must have been derived from his childhood. (Adler's earliest memory was of himself as an ailing, rachitic two-year-old, bandaged like a mummy, immobile on a park bench while his elder brother bounced around showing off his prowess.) A disciple of Freud until he broke with him in 1911, Adler insisted that...
...ironic: for, rather than spelling things out in the usual academic way, Wilder, himself a poet, created lectures which were artistic wholes whose suggestive parts were given unity by the cumulative effect of all that was said. Speaking honestly but with restraint, he did not attempt to appear profound and relevant (as many do) by repeating what have come to be cliches about man's "existential predicament" as seen by both theologians and artists. Probably he assumed that most of the audience would already be familiar with such analyses, an area which has been adequately covered by other spokesmen...
...President Eisenhower's Declaration of In dependence on foreign policy [Nov. 12] appeals to me as the most profound expression of our generation for world peace. Granting the difficulties to be encountered before the dream can become a reality, here in the simplest, most direct language are expressed the basic principles on which any lasting world peace must rest...