Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Misalliance, a bright union of acid dialogue and fanciful plot, serves as a scrap-book for assorted bits of Shavian philosophy. Skimming over anything profound, the play is an agreeable jumble of Shaw's acumen and nonsense. By exaggerating speech and gestures, the Broadway version has heightened the whimsey and strengthened the plot...
...this viewpoint shows how radically different was the 18th-century conception of profundity and sentiment from that of the succeeding period. With Mozart (and in this he is typical of one of the strongest currents of his age) it is often the simple and obvious which is the profound; but of course the naivete is deceptive, and the real meaning of the phrase is neither simple nor obvious. The artist, however, must in no case insist upon this "real meaning"; though he has grasped it fully, his performance must have the fluency and calculated nonchalance which are the signs...
...wonder if anyone is more profoundly confused, in this century of profound confusion, than Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins is concerning the goals and functions of education...
...have promulgated, accepted, and administered some novel procedure during a single tenure whereby they achieve the sole discretionary power of rejection without review. It is neither inapt nor impertinent to suggest that, if the issue is answered in the affirmative, the political system under which the Review functions has profound similarities with that system the editors propose is the altar on which the eligible in question burns holy incense. The Review achieves in the field of its own forum the very result we agree is heinous--self-perpetuation by standards of conduct variable at will and without recourse. Robert Henigson...
...soon lose $8 billion a year in present revenues, since it is committed to letting some emergency taxes die next year-the excess profits tax, the 10% emergency boost in personal income taxes, the temporary 5% boost in corporate rates. And with Russia's super bomb raising some profound questions of U.S. defense strategy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), defense spending may have to be raised...