Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just isn't in the deck. For one thing, the population explosion goes against it; most of the children being born into the world are not and never will be Christian. The population's mobility goes against it; a mobile Protestant population can't sink profound religious roots. And the intellectual communication necessary to Protestantism is being drowned out by the bombardment of mass media-a sermon is lost in the other words of the week...
...sometimes verges on the inaudible. He can reduce the bone-wearying comic horrors of travel to a sentence as when Harold Rhodes, burdened with two lead-weight suitcases, just makes a train: "The station agent took their tickets gravely from between Harold's teeth." He has not created profound characters in the Rhodeses, but he has recorded a profound change of attitude. At book's beginning the heaviest luggage the Rhodeses carry is their own inferiority complex. They think they know what they want-to be French; at book's end they know and accept what they...
...extremely hushed and clean reading of Wagner's Good Friday Spell from Parsifal. The opera is, of course, neither Christian nor religious, but deserves hearing any time. Why then drag it out in Holy Week for "appropriateness"? This bow to the season even caused one Boston critic to express profound shock that the audience broke the "sacred" tone of the concert with applause. Myself, I applauded lustily...
Collector Merle Armitage's huffing against Henry Koerner's art should not go unanswered. New insights always strike some people as "inexcusable." Koerner's Leontyne Price portrait seemed to me astonishing, disturbing, beautiful, profound...
COMO PUCCINI: Turandot, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tejussi Bjoeriling, Giorgio Tozzi Rome Opera House Or and Chorus conducted by Leinsdorf. RCA Victor LM ndot is Puccini's best and yet frustrating opera. "Best," be of the scope of its profound and dramatic characterize "Frustrating," because the touchstone, its final duet, not written by Puccini but one instead by a mediocre of his, Franco Alfano...