Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Should Johnson decide on a massive new input of men, the impact on the U.S. would be profound: mobilization of some elements of the reserves and of the National Guard at a time when both may be needed to cope with disorders in the cities; higher taxes; perhaps even wage and price controls. The effects on Johnson's political future would be no less profound, for support of the war has reached an alltime low within the nation. According to a Gallup poll released this week, 49% of Americans-the highest total ever-believe that the U.S. made...
...contrast, middle-and lower-echelon officials at the State Department, the Pentagon and U.S. headquarters in Saigon voiced profound pessimism. They were dismayed by the uncertain performance of the South Vietnamese government, dejected by the demoralization of a populace suddenly feeling even less secure than before, disappointed by the failure of U.S. intelligence in anticipating the scope of the Communist move at a time when such attacks clearly should have been anticipated. No one of course believed that half a million U.S. troops could be defeated by the enemy in Viet Nam; but there was considerable fear that they...
...Ernst, he has been working in three dimensions ever since 1934, but his later sculptures have grown less spiky and beaky, more solid - and yet, elusive. His most recent series of massive limestone figures, which he Las been working on since 1965, emphasize his profound disillusionment with the state of the world. "If you look at the first page of the newspaper," says Ernst, "you feel such overwhelming disgust for everything going on in the world that you must echo this." In his gigantic stone monoliths, Ernst's angst becomes monumental. The figures are droll and disquieting, monstrous...
...prose, or perhaps because of it, the innocence of Kerouac is established beyond question. Alas, in literature, as in all other secular endeavors, innocence is not enough. The reader is left with the uneasy feeling that Kerouac's pilgrimage should have brought him to an understanding more profound than the discovery that "all is vanity...
...about to start. So Gore drives this fantastic ambulance, and Igor fixes a Russian tank captured from the Arabs. They become great buddies, of course, while a lot of studs get their brains shot out. But mainly, the war as here described amid all this profound Israeli scenery is like everybody squirting beer on each other at a fraternity picnic. All the action moves along double time, like a fast-motion film; everything is jerky, smaller than human. With so much motion, there is no time for motive. War, sex, poetry and friendship demand some viewpoint from the author. Levin...