Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justified under certain circumstances. Currently, the differences between these views are of more than academic interest. The introduction of several state abortion reform bills has caused a loud and bitter interfaith debate on the subject-and has indicated that even in an era of ecumenical good will, there remain profound disparities between Catholicism and other faiths on fundamental issues...
While Orthodox Jews and conservative Protestants generally remain opposed to abortion reform, there is increasing sentiment in both church and synagogue to liberalize existing laws, within certain bounds. The New York State Council of Churches has endorsed the state's abortion bill on grounds of "profound charity." The New York Federation of Reform Synagogues, which also supports the new proposal, has pointed out that "great suffering and the loss of life of thousands of women is the price that is paid because abortion is illegal...
...electronic music, there is none so mystical and dedicated as Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen. He talks about "expanded sense of time" and "sound-visions," and when he sees a sumo wrestling match in Japan, he flips because "the prolonged preparation and then the quick violent act" have a profound impact on his music. For the moment, the sounds that come out of his tape recorder put Stockhausen, 38, out in front of the avant-garde by several thousand volts...
...beyond the limits of a single discipline. Leonardo Da Vinci is as famous for his inventions as for his paintings, and the story-teller Lewis Carroll was a pioneer in mathematics and photography. Meyer Schapiro, the 1967 Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, combines this same curiosity and inventiveness with a profound, human sensitivity. While he is an art historian by profession he is conversant with subjects as diverse as semiotics and Freudian psychology...
...time ministering to specific situations of human need, such as in city hospitals or schools-a program that is currently being carried out by the Episcopal Theological School of Cambridge, Mass. He calls for more campus ecumenism: "The ignorance which even neighboring schools have of each other is often profound and permits prejudice to abound...