Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Churchill, the Communists have merely "[left] off doing things which we have not been doing to them." But the Prime Minister regards "the internal manifestations ... as far more important than what has happened outside," and he solemnly warned the West not to underrate "what might be a profound movement of Russian opinion ... It would, I think, be a mistake to assume that nothing can be settled with the Soviet Union unless or until everything is settled...
...have been wasted away by the sons of rich men to give truth to the saying: "From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three gen erations." No one had a better chance to make this saying come true again than the Ford brothers, Henry, Benson and William, grandsons of the unpredictable, profound ly radical genius who began the age of mass production and created a billion-dollar empire out of a simple idea : "A car for the masses." By its balance sheet alone, the empire left at the end of World War II by Old Henry Ford to Henry, Ben and Billy...
After nearly two years as commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, strapping General James A. Van Fleet came back to the U.S. with "a profound sense of frustration." His testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the Korean ammunition shortage (TIME, April 13 et seq.) made clear some of the reasons for the frustration. This week, in the first of two articles written for LIFE, Van Fleet gives a grim warning to the U.S. against the way the U.S. is conducting the Korean War. "We have made terrible mistakes in Korea. We may be in the process...
They are most profound when they are least political. The early September speeches, like "On the Nature of Liberalism" (New York City) and "On Political Morality" (Los Angeles) were written before the real fighting began. They are more philosophy than politics. But as the campaign became more bitter, as he was pulled off his podium into the political snake pit, the quality slips. Only a few times in the last few weeks could he match his first efforts. Perhaps he came closest in the Mormon Tabernacle on October 14, where he said...
...those of us who have long suspected that Hollywood has its deep thinkers, Salome is a vindication. No doubt Arthur Miller though he was being profound and daring in The Crucible, but Salome makes his play look shallow and puritanical...