Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most profound sticker I have seen reads: MAKE LOVE...
SELECTED POEMS, by Eugenic Montale. Poet Montale has been called "the Italian Eliot," and this first volume of his verse to appear in translation in the U.S. shows that readers have been missing a writer of importance, indisputably the most profound Italian poet of this century...
...that has met the challenge. In the 19th century, it made a dramatic decision to modernize and had the advantage of starting from a fairly advanced feudal base. The Japanese have developed a truly industrial society within many of the old forms. A working democracy coexists with a profound need for authority and group action, a consumer economy with esthetic frugality (one picture hanging at a time, in contrast with the Western collector's crowded wall). Industry is paternalistic and feudal-hardly anyone gets fired or quits-although that is beginning to change...
These sales add up to only one symptom of a profound change that has overtaken the world's food supply. With the earth's population growing twice as fast as food production, North America and Australia have become the bread basket for more than half the world. The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that per capita food output will actually decline 2% this year and that more than 3,000,000 people will die of malnutrition. This problem has created challenges and opportunities for companies with the talent to help end hunger...
Gone Fission. Nuclear power is also creating a profound reaction in Europe. From nearly three dozen plants, Europe last year generated nuclear energy equal to 2,000,000 tons of coal; by 1980, the figure is expected to rise to 125 million tons. Britain now has more nuclear-produced power than all the rest of the world; France, which is short of other power sources, is trying to catch up. The Fifth Plan provides for starts on five to eight reactors...