Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avowed intention always to keep in mind the limitations of the human voice when composing, Das Marienlaben requires a virtuoso soprano with an acute sense of rhythm, unerring breath control, and a versatile, disciplined voice. Phyllis Curtin possessed all these, as well as what appeared to be a profound knowledge of the work's structure. Her intimate style is well suited to the darkly lyrical numbers, and in expressing the stark misery of a song like the Pieta, she sounded desolate, cerie, and thoroughly convincing...
...nature writer, but other novels such as The Woman at the Pump, the story of an emasculated man living in a sexy situation (nine years before Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises), showed that Hamsun's real literary impulse, formed during his years of vagabondage, was a profound reaction to petit bourgeois life. A few years later he embraced Reaction as a political faith. His wife was an outright Nazi sympathizer, and Hamsun himself fell for the Hitler line. When Germany conquered Norway, he told his countrymen: "Norwegians! Throw away your rifles and return home. The Germans...
...Profound Contempt." When the U.S. entered World War I, Wood signed up, sailed with the Rainbow Division under Douglas MacArthur, who was chief of staff and is still a close friend. Before long, Wood was ordered from France to Washington as acting quartermaster general, and promoted to brigadier general. In a short time, he reorganized the chaotic Army procurement. At war's end, Julius Thorne, a Wood aide who in civilian life was president of Montgomery Ward, took the general back there with...
...future for mail-order houses lay in expanding into the retail field. But Ward's management couldn't see it. "[They] regarded the retail outlets as funnels through which to drop the lemons from the mail-order inventory," Wood says. "I'm afraid I developed a profound contempt for [them]." Apparently, the contempt was mutual. In 1924, Wood was fired...
...right to censor the teaching of others. The answer is that no one should have the right to prevent an individual from teaching what he thinks right. Indeed, the Committee's charges themselves are indicative of the growing attack directed against those in the teaching profession; it represents a profound mistrust and an unjustified fear that academic freedom will harm liberties. The Committee erroneously believe that by taking away some liberties, they are insuring others...