Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways . . . You can prove anything by it . . . I am speaking of the abuse of psychology, gentlemen...
...petition declares "profound concern and passionate revulsion at the barbaric conditions reported to exist at the Presidio Stockade." The statement calls for all citizens" and veterans' groups to demand a full investigation by the President and Congress of the events of October 14, and of conditions in the stockade...
...meant to point to the gravity, the universality, and the demonic results of evil. And the language was a way of stating this. But we no longer buy the old notion of biological transmission or try to have a system of inheritance. The notion of 'original' means profound-trans-individual, way back and deep down. The analogy of evil has changed, but the reality hasn't lessened...
...says, in effect, that the occurrence of any chance event-the roll of a seven in dice, for example, or the random collision of stray molecules in the atmosphere-is more likely to conform to the prescribed statistical odds with each successive attempt. To Xenakis, this mathematical absolute has profound philosophical meaning: it implies that the changing structure of certain events in life, including the sounds that man creates, may tend ultimately toward a state of stability, or stochos (the Greek word for goal). Hence, he dubs his quest for mathematical orderliness in composition "stochastic" music. Xenakis describes...
...face of these slow gains, Clark said, "a more profound inequality is developing." While the government has concentrated on the South, "a massive new segregation has grown up in the North. The law has barely begun to look...