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Word: profounder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readings are a little tough on poets and audience alike. The poet, uncertain of his audience, must perhaps pass up good poems in favor of inferior but more easily assimilated material. He is likely to find that a catchy closing couplet will draw more audience reaction than a more profound piece...

Author: By Howard L. White, | Title: Pulitzer Prize Poets Kunitz, Wilbur Recite Own Works at Lowell Hall | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

Regarding the case of Lewis Strauss: Voltaire, a great mind with insight into human nature, spoke with profound prophecy in his Catiline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

Prince Edward County, in the tobacco country of south central Virginia, last week became the first community anywhere to abandon its schools entirely in order to prevent desegregation. The trick was simply turned: the county supervisors. "with profound regret," canceled school appropriations for next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Segregation Preserved | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Incarnation, still feel that "Christ should be regarded ... as a very great prophet or teacher." "Whether or not he lived, many of his teachings are well worthwhile," an agnostic notes marginally. "The highest ideal of man," another adds; and a former Conservative Jew sees him as a "beautiful and profound symbol...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

Munch was a profound visionary and his Nouveauesque attempts at decorative simplification almost hurt his work. At his best, as he is in his famous print, Geschrei, and the marvelous tone modulations of the lithograph, Attraction, he presents a luminous picture of man's subconscious fears and desires...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Art Nouveau | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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