Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genius of physics, the leader in the making of the Abomb. Less sharply, they understood that he was a leader in another sense, that he had become a symbol of a new mood among physicists (and many other scientists), a mood that alternated between their old self-confidence and profound new doubts. The Oppenheimer who symbolized this mood had become a power in the highest policy councils of the nation, partly because of the national dependence on him and the men for whom he stood, partly by the force of his personality. His genius, perhaps, was not confined to physics...
...wish to make public my profound regret that anything said in that context should have been so misconstrued and abused that it would damage Dr. Peters and threaten his distinguished future career as a scientist...
NEWS: Gerald W. Johnson (of Baltimore's WAAM-TV), for "his profound sense of political history, his graceful literary style, and his outspoken courage...
...Paul Matisse, "Poems, Poetry and Mallarme" was originally prepared for Professor MacLeish's Humanities 130. Poetry to Matisse is a completely personal thing which he parallels to the experience of love. He also discusses poetry as a key to one's consciousness. Though these concepts are not unusually profound, Matisse's expression is readable and interesting; and unlike many essays of this type it rarely gets tangled in metaphysics. In the latter part of the essay, the author discusses a Mallarme sonnet and this part perhaps could have been left to the more curious eyes of the Humanities grader...
Says Dr. Cohen in summary: "He remains disoriented, with poor judgment, flattened [emotional responses] and a profound amnesia. The outlook is poor, but not completely without hope that he may some day be able to ... manage outside the hospital." Cases like Hewitt's will become more common, Dr. Cohen points out (Brentwood already has two more), as the practice spreads of opening the chest to massage a stalled heart...