Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European legend. Translated to a Mexican setting by B. Traven, a mysterious recluse (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948) who lives in Mexico and writes masterly proletarian novels and short stories, the legend has been transformed by two gifted Mexicans, Director Roberto Gavaldon and Cameraman Gabriel Figueroa, into a fragile but profound little picture that abounds and delights in the black-and-white magic of the magic lantern...
...first year at Sadiki, he and his lifelong friend Mohammed ben Hamouda had joined an anti-French demonstration through the streets of Tunis. Recalls Hamouda, now a pharmacist in Tunis: "We were finally rounded up, given a good spanking, and sent home. But this made a profound impression on Slim. From that time on, his life was politics...
Nothing in recent baseball history has aroused such sustained excitement-or provoked such profound and varied emotion-as Maris' determined, season-long assault on Ruth's enduring achievement. Most fans cheered him on; ballparks were jammed wherever the Yankees went, and encouraging messages flowed into Yankee Stadium at the rate of 3,000 a week. But a few sentimentalists saw every Maris homer as a personal attack on Ruth. They argued that today's ball is livelier, today's fences shorter, today's pitching easier to hit. Groused Oldtimer Rogers Hornsby: "Maris has no right...
...them with an awe curious in a man so intoxicated with words. He once wrote to a friend: "I'd rather have written the first movement of Beethoven's Eroica than the Song of Solomon; it is not only far more beautiful, it is also far more profound. A better man wrote...
Asks Rabbi Weiner: "Is it possible for the Christian faith to be dipped profoundly in the life and reality of modern Israel without undergoing some profound changes?" And he wonders if there might not be ''a kind of Christianity, a religious seed . . . acceptable to this soil...