Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hold the front door open for himself and his dogs. Intrigued with this bit of noblesse oblige, I inquired if he had rewarded her in the customary fashion with "thank you." "I don't recall that he did," my mother replied. Only sportsmen will understand my profound sense of relief for that answer. No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired the title to "The Greatest." When one considers that he did so in the prepituitary era, it is doubly awesome...
...nothing else, the Christian atheists are waking the churches to the brutal reality that the basic premise of faith?the existence of a personal God, who created the world and sustains it with his love?is now subject to profound attack. "What is in question is God himself," warns German Theologian Heinz Zahrnt, "and the churches are fighting a hard defensive battle, fighting for every inch." "The basic theological problem today," says one thinker who has helped define it, Langdon Gilkey of the University of Chicago Divinity School, "is the reality...
Gaullism East. Ceausescu's Rumania shares few similarities with its Eastern European neighbors-other than a predilection for national dissimilarity, and a profound suspicion of Russia. Rumania is, in many ways, the Gaullist France of Eastern Europe. The label fits not only in Bucharest's relations with its allies but physically and culturally as well. Fully 65% of Rumania's foreign-language students are learning French; Bucharest even boasts an Arc de Triomphe. Berets are de rigueur in Bucharest's working-class bistros, and the nascent Rumanian film industry-a mere 15 years old-has borrowed...
...proved an unsuccessful experiment, torpedoed in several instances by prickly national and even tribal sensitivities and by the fear of bureaucrats that cooperation would eliminate duplication of ministries-and hence their jobs. Though it is a geographical entity, for example, Africa suffers from such deep and profound differences as to make it seem like a collection of different worlds. More over, there, are no African, Asian or Latin American countries today that show much interest in revising their borders or totally merging with other nations. Still, given the number and the weaknesses of new nations, the possibility of future political...
...Peace Corps has a "profound effect" on the career choice of Volunteers, says Robert Calvert, director of the organization's Career Information Service...