Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First (and only) Soviet Congress, he was in a good position to view the political trend. "Things were going the wrong way," he meditates sadly. "I could see that it was not to be a bloodless revolution. Why I was not shot I shall never know; the profound reason, I guess, is that I am just lucky...
...three-act verse drama "Autumn" last Monday night. We had gone prepared to wrestle with obscurities and be buffeted by lines of lofty poetic significance, but Mr. Phelps had imposed on us too much. If we had grasped the deep meaning of every symbol and responded fully to every profound line in his play we would have been left limp from catharsis, unable to leave the theatre. As it was we walked out, perplexed...
Baker returns to give English 160, "Drama Since Ibsen." He is always enjoyable to hear, but his lectures are more glib than profound. Baker treats drama primarily as literature, the traditional University aproach...
...that hides the nakedness of the brutal revolutionary totalitarianism that is the Communist aim . . . Self deception . . . is nothing new in the history of American liberalism, but today, when it serves so well the purposes of those for whom deception is a basic strategy, and when it effects such a profound corruption of thought and culture, it is a luxury we cannot afford...
...been asked to do, but he realized that as the 1952 presidential campaign drew nearer, pressure would grow to finance the government campaign out of the Treasury, as it was financed more or less in 1948. Said Havana's newspaper Alerta: "Bosch took office to the profound disgust of the politicians, and leaves accompanied by their broad smiles as they wait outside the ministry doors to assault the Treasury he guarded...