Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHAT IS CLEAR is that Berryman is "tense with love" (279), though "truly isolated, pal," (203). He has wrestled out of himself a "yes" to the world and his own soul, and in the meantime he has created a delightful, profound, and moving poem. What Berryman means to say escapes him, as it must. Like all poets he longs for something he will never find, something he cannot even see. That something fills him with "nostalgia for things unknown" (211), but he knows it is beyond...
...effective contraceptive device. As Pope Paul VIs encyclical made clear last summer, the Catholic hierarchy is not yet prepared to abandon a position that it has maintained for 1,770 years. When it does, John Rock's courage and example will have played a significant part in this profound reform...
Next day, at Fortas' request, Lyndon Johnson withdrew the nomination. It was a profound humiliation for the President. Said Johnson: "The action of the Senate, a body I revere and to which I devoted a dozen years of my life, is historically and constitutionally tragic." Johnson was referring to the fact that the Senate had never actually voted on the merits of the nomination, only on the procedural question of giving it formal consideration. All but forgotten was another loser in the affair: Homer Thornberry, who was to have replaced Fortas as an Associate Justice on the court. Since...
...manner, his quiet voice, his absolute refusal to etch his wit with any hint of emphasis, his offhand delivery which would insist that remarks about the future of the world were best delivered in the tone you - might employ for buying a bottle of aspirin, gave hint of his profound conservatism...
...generally docile and conservative hierarchy of Italy has issued a less than rigorous interpretation of the encyclical-much to the dismay of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which tried to get the statement toughened. The 20 cardinals and bishops who approved it expressed "profound gratitude" to the Pope for Humanae Vitae. However, they described the encyclical as but one "essential element in the formation of conscience so that responsible judgment can result in conformity with God's will." They recommended that priests exercise lenience with couples who, for reasons other than "egoism...