Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor who ultimately proves to be her saviour. Though loosely constructed, the plot is not without tension and suspense. Mr. Rattigan's terrific seriousness accounts for much of this, for we are led to believe that far below the surface of interweaving love, lust, and indifference, there is profound moral to be found. There is a moral: "Take a sleeping pill and go in living," and perhaps it is profound, but after all the histrionics which occur on stage, it seems a bit anti-climatic...
...contrast with past nominees, Stevenson has a profound analytical approach to national problems, and he is not ashamed to use it. He understands, for instance, that corruption is just as much the voters' fault as of those in office, and he has told them so. He has not denied the Mess In Washington, he has not assailed it with bromides abouts raseals, and he has not promised to clean it out throughly overnight. Instead, with considerable honesty, he said that he would do all that he could, but that he could do no more than the level of public morality...
THERE was really nothing mysterious about Santayana's line: he was a psychologist rather than a philosopher. Like the early Greeks, he was a strict materialist who used philosophy to organize the world in a practical way. He had the profound Spanish belief in the vital part to be played by custom. What he aimed at was the discovery of a civilized and permissible attitude toward life. So he saw religion as a useful myth, not because it makes men moral, but because it civilizes them. He enjoyed mocking American. English and German Protestants for their rigid dismissal...
Henry D. Aiken associate professor of Philosophy, said that "For anyone who, like myself, professes to be a liberal, Santayana must inevitably be an ambiguous figure. I honor his naturalism, his devotion to the life of reason, his imaginative humanism. As a literary psychologist, he is exciting and profound. As a philosophical critic of literature and life on a dozen levels, he is penetrating and often wise...
...that a new kind of human being (according to our present knowledge they will all be girls) -will appear in society, and will be aware of their extraordinary origin . . . Realization of the fact that the male has ceased to be necessary for propagation will not fail to exercise a profound effect on the relations between man and woman...