Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a spirited attack on today's professors for abnegating their traditional responsibility as philosophes. Instead of serving as the community's moral conscience, Roszak charges, most academics now function as multiversity service-station attendants, filling up students with credits and subjects, fretting about nothing more profound than their own tenure and sabbaticals...
British Novelist Gwyn Griffin here uses a straightforward, fast-paced plot chiefly as a scaffolding from which he can poke and probe into some of the profound moral problems raised...
...astonishing to many Northern doctors. As a former Yankee who was a medical student and intern in Cincinnati during the mid-fifties, I was well aware of this common practice, which was frequently discussed on our ward rounds. While some may believe this eating of starch has profound psychiatric implications, our understanding (based on talking with many of these mothers) is much homelier. Through folklore, many women believe that the starch, in some fashion, enhances the production of vernix caseosa, thereby making delivery of their babies easier and quicker. Vernix caseosa is the slippery white stuff that covers the skin...
Geisel, who considers his work "logical insanity," gets a wry chuckle out of all the profound Ph.D. papers written about his books. He views himself -and most creative people-as those who "compensate for something-you wouldn't start building something new unless you were dissatisfied with what you've got." Perhaps, he adds with a smile, "we are all psychotic." Maybe so, but under the spell of Dr. Seuss, a cat that wears a hat and an elephant that sits in a tree somehow seem more normal than a Dick and Jane who chase a ball...
Measure for Measure, if you parsed it and diagrammed it, might turn out to be a neat and a deep play. At one sitting, however, it is a mess of moral contradictions sitting uneasily in a shaky plot. Shakespeare was a notoriously profound asker of questions and he asks some big ones in Measure for Measure: What price Chastity? Do the ends justify the means? Is one man fit to judge another...