Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alarm and anger spread over Japan. The bottom dropped out of the fish market. Shops sold out their supplies of Geiger counters, and all incoming fishing boats were checked for radiation. The highly radioactive Fortunate Dragon was quarantined and the entire crew hospitalized. U.S. Ambassador John Allison offered profound official apologies, promised restitution if "the facts so warrant." Meanwhile, there were other aftereffects of the blast...
...Americans have recognized their social problems in the slums and the South, they have always held the country's medicine in profound respect. Within the world of health they left the American Medical Association reigning supreme, controlling the licencing of physicians and dictating restrictions on public health insurance. Professionally the AMA has undoubtedly maintained the highest standards, but its disciplined financial lobby has consistently exerted pressure against measures which, while giving medical security to more people, might dent the doctors' income...
Such sanctioning ranges from encouraging a child to lie about his age, so as to enter a movie at cut rates, to more profound forms of implied approval, e.g., "inordinate maternal curiosity regarding daughter's experiences with boys . . . misguided, too exciting discussions about sex . . . encouragement of display of undue degrees of nudity at home." In many "respectable" families, an attitude of "frankness" about procreation "is carried far beyond the needs of the curious child . . . [and] much of this spuriousness is perpetrated in the name of Freud, who [advocated] moderation and restraint; the parent was to answer the child...
Someone said that freedom must be defended at all times because, like virtue, it is at all times besieged. This is true for all, and for all cases. But the profound meaning of freedom must be understood. The best definition was given by Cicero: "Freedom is participation in power." Only in democracy can we have direct and indirect participation in power. But power presupposes property−and property means initiative, responsibility and risk. This is a law of history. Therefore, the proletarian will have no power as long as he remains a proletarian...
...that's all there is to it. In a few weeks everyone accepts the new man as Martha's husband, Peter, or whoever he was." Radio strips are well known for their pregnant pauses Between sentences. On TV the long, thoughtful pause has been translated into the profound, reflective look. TV actors have to work much harder, since they must memorize their lines. But writers have developed a share-the-work technique: if Actor A has to learn a lot of ines on Monday, he is given only a few ines on Tuesday, when the bulk...