Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...various vertical distances above and below a reference line. The work, described as "savage" in the program notes but bordering on melodrama, describes Schoenberg's raging desperateness as the Jews flee Nazist Warsaw, and his resumption of the Jewish faith in the face of this tragic modern Diaspora. This profound personal utterance seems to suffer from the same type of self-consciously tortured text which reduced Bernstein's Kaddish symphony to almost complete rhetorical vacuousness. The performance was frenetic rather than impassioned, especially in the closing Hebrew prayer Sh'ma Yisroel, but since the work is one organized explosion...
...this youthful office-holder? The assassinated President stated that he was the best politician in the family. And it is apparent to anyone who glances at the records accumulated in the marble corridors of the Senate that John was not wrong; the youngest brother is a profound and capable politician. He accommodates; he cajoles; he forces progress; he has the best assets of a great operative in the legislative...
...influential but, more importantly, the fact that, in her approach and in her solution to so many problems, Harvard has invariably done the right and reasonable thing. In her continual striving for "Veritas," she has acted neither from haste or from pressure, but only after full knowledge and profound consideration...
Neither Black nor White. Hayakawa, who has spoken repeatedly and vigorously on the need for more effective civil rights initiatives, professes some hope that his own color will help him work out a compromise between black militants and whites at S.F. State. "In a very profound sense," he said, "I stand in the middle. I am neither white nor black." Thus he would like to be come "a channel to bring blacks and whites together...
...pulpit today," Nixon wrote, "speak too much about religion in the abstract, rather than in personal, simple terms. More preaching from the Bible rather than just about the Bible is what America needs." Nixon also described religion as "the true fountainhead of America's strength. I have a profound conviction that the whole national experience of our people, the extent to which the American idea has worked, is evidence of the interdependence of a widely shared religious faith and the vigorous health of a free American society...