Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political system has undergone a revolution since 1933, and another major departure appears in process now." That departure involves a wholly new system of relationships and approaches to Government at all levels of American society. As Gardner puts it, the new modes of organizing U.S. life have "profound implications for the way we organize our society and govern ourselves in the years ahead." Says he: "We have made the biggest step-facing our problems and the nature of the solutions. We have a sense of what can and should...
...theologians and moral philosophers agree, violating the just-war principle of discrimination. The conditions of warfare in which a factory can be as much of a military installation as an airfield has created inevitable new hazards for noncombatants. And Mao Tse-tung's dictum, "There is no profound difference between the farmer and the soldier," underlies the special problems created by guerrilla warfare. The U.S. is not deliberately trying to destroy and demoralize civilians; it is guerrilla tactics and terror that attempt this. Writes Dr. Paul Ramsey, professor of Christian ethics at Princeton: "If the guerrilla chooses to fight...
...honest with themselves. He saw most human beings as hypocrites of the heart, defilers of the mind, and desiccators of the spirit. In his plays he waged an inexorable assault on the timid frauds, the sick souls, and audaciously exposed social dry rot. Integrity was his dramatic Excalibur. The profound irony of The Wild Duck is that it unflinchingly examines the human havoc that can result from so ruthless a devotion to honesty...
...books illustrate rather than resolve the paradox. When Journey to the End of the Night detonated on the French literary scene in 1932 (there were riots when it did not receive that year's Prix Goncourt), it was like an explosion of excrement. The doctor who had a profound vocation for healing wrote of his pitiable patients with derision and rage. If he was antiSemitic, he also detested Christians...
Gary Snyder presents an interesting case, interesting perhaps to study in the light of Barber's theories about aggression. Snyder is a charismatic, gleeful, booming-voiced, hyper-energetic Adonis of a man, very sharp-witted, very profound, a long-time student of Zen in Kyoto, and a poet who despite militant political leftism gives the impression of being the best-adjusted man on earth. Yet I don't think he's much of a poet, and I can't help feeling he's perhaps too much of a man, in the sense that Yeats was suggesting (as Barber quotes...