Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court raised that profound issue by hurling a constitutional thunderbolt at the most basic U.S. police method of solving crimes: questioning suspects and extracting confessions. For decades, that system has thrived on the fact that most people are not aware of their constitutional right to silence. By holding that suspects may need lawyers to protect that right not merely in court but in the police station, the court's decision in Escobedo v. Illinois posed a cop's nightmare-no more confessions...
...Potter wrote, "In the Heisenberg representation of quantum electrodynamics, the radiative corrections to the scattering matri are best evaluated using the anti-commutater of the renormalized Green's function with its irreducible Spinner invariant." It didn't win, but the announcer read it on the air because "it sounded profound...
...What you have written on the Death of God controversy is a disappointing pastiche of quips and quotes, obscuring the more profound issues in the faith crisis. Instead of name-dropping on the God droppers, would that you had shown your readers some of the religiously conservative elements in the new iconoclasm: recovery of the Second Commandment (against idolatrous images), recovery of ancient Jewish and Christian doctrine of the transcendence and hiddenness of God (against easy equation of God with culture or finite being), recovery of the insights of saints and mystics on the necessary Dark Nights of the Soul...
...while it existed 30 years ago in the world of the old Establishment-where the dukes, politicians, prelates, publishing lords, financiers and industrialists all knew one another-it is still truer today in the new society. The London that has emerged is swinging, but in a far more profound sense than the colorful and ebullient pop culture by itself would suggest. London has shed much of its smugness, much of the arrogance that often went with the stamp of privilege, much of its false pride-the kind that long kept it shabby and shopworn in physical fact and spirit...
...William Burroughs scissored up his manuscript and pasted it back together higgledy-piggledy before turning it in to his publishers. Result: a hallucinatory little nonbook of babble whose most distinguishing feature is a preoccupation with sodomy and the dubious joys thereof. Burroughs apologists insist that there are plot and Profound Meaning imbedded in the book, but only a cultist will find them...