Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laurence B. Holland, teaching fellow in History and Literature, said, "Professor Matthiessen's death is as tremendous a loss as Harvard could have suffered. There could not have been as devoted a teacher or a more profound student of American culture. He was loyal both to his associates and to an unbelievable degree to his students...
...long career-money, books and manuscripts-have gone to charities and public institutions. He was content with other kinds of rewards. Said Fritz Kreisler to his birthday well-wishers last week, while wife Harriet tugged at the tablecloth to remind him not to talk too long: "Accept the profound gratitude of one who will always remain your humble and faithful friend...
Arthur Smithies, professor of Economics: "Professor Schumpeter was one of the most profound students of capitalism the world has produced. His warm and generous personality made him one of the best friends that anyone could hope to have...
Caesar and Cleopatra (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers in association with Julius Fleischmann) remains after half a century one of Shaw's, and hence the modern theater's, most vigorous plays. Shaw has often been more amusing, and sometimes more electrifying or profound. But in Caesar, using comedy with little flippancy, he achieved sharp comment; and with history for a pedestal, he set something Roman and solid upon...