Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typical Piston works brought the program to a pleasant, if not profound, conclusion. The Sonatina for Viola and Harpsichord, played by Miss Pernel and Melville Smith, consists of two light, almost frivolous, allegros with a subdued adagio in between. Miss Pernel showed greater self-confidence than earlier in the evening, and Mr. Smith, except for an occasional harshness in tone, was quite satisfactory...
...Profound Shift. The British "utmost," if Churchill's words meant what they seemed to say, included a profound shift in the British outlook on China. Said the Prime Minister: "You have wisely been resolute, members of Congress, in confronting Chinese Communist aggression. We take our stand at your side . . . I am very glad that whatever diplomatic divergencies there may be from time to time about procedure, you do not allow the Chinese anti-Communists on Formosa to be invaded and massacred from the mainland...
These complexities may be lost on millions of Europeans, who yet sense something profound in the Schuman Plan and have frequently been ahead of their governments in supporting it. In May 1950, their hearts were kindled when France's Robert Schuman, proposing the plan, pointed out that Germany and France, once their basic industries had been scrambled into an omelet, would "no longer be tempted to wage war; indeed, war between them will be impracticable...
...stretch-out policy will have a profound effect on the entire economy. Many a manufacturer who has planned to hit peak output in 1953, and then cut back sharply, will have his schedules revised. The original peak will not be reached, but production will continue longer at the lower level, and there will be fewer cutbacks. In short, it looked now as if the armament-based boom would last much longer than most businessmen had thought...
Public Faces. Now that Brooks has finished his grand tour of American literary history, the strengths and weaknesses of his five volumes are abundantly clear. Anyone looking for profound criticism-of say, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass, Sister Carrie-will not find it here. Nor is it impressive as intellectual history. Brooks croons over Emerson for pages, but is singularly vague in defining his philosophy of transcendentalism. He refers to Dreiser's concern over the relation between morals and success, but does not say what that relation was. Nowhere does he approach the lucidity and incisiveness...