Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readymade Profit. The roster of top European executives today reflects profound changes in Europe's business community. Before World War II, most big European companies were owned and run by clannish, long-established families that kept their business affairs strictly secret, regarded advertising as an unnecessary extravagance and shunned public attention. The goal was high profit on low volume, and membership in a tidy cartel generally eliminated the danger of painful competition over prices and markets. A rigid class system kept workers from rising into executive ranks; the notion of increasing national buying power by raising wages was regarded...
...evoked. And the fact of death in the midst of life is realized with horrible power in the image of the filthy cancer hidden in the glowing girl. But the film intends to show more than this. It intends to show a crise de I'ãme, "a profound transformation of the being." It doesn't. For one thing, Actress Marchand's face is no more capable of transformation than a kewpie doll's. For another, Director Varda suddenly twists the heroine's harm into a happy ending which sentimentally suggests that every shroud...
What is best about the essays is not Writer Hardwick's critical conclusions, which tend to be prudent rather than profound, but her rare talent for skewering a flaw or evoking a literary presence in a single, ringing epigram. Items...
...Gaulle as often as a U.S. ambassador might expect to be, and French newspapers never failed to point out that his first visit to France was on Dday, by jump with his 82nd Airborne Division. Last week France's most influential newspaper, Le Monde, warmly praised "his profound learning, his total honesty, his devotion to his duty...
...speeches were not very profound, but, politicians are not supposed to say profound things even if they can. Both demonstrated, as did Hamlet, that in politics "the play's the thing...