Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skillful rococo colorist named Joseph Blackburn arrived from England. He immediately became an established painter in Boston and his work had a profound influence on Copley's portraiture. Blackburn's colors were light and gentle but the elegance of Blackburn's style drew out of Copley the sensitivity as a colorist which characterizes all of his later work. Though Blackburn had a great influence on Copley, Copley's individuality as a painter was never obscured; the characteristic sharp contrasts of light and dark (chiarascuro effects), the bold, saturated colors, and the free, heavy impasto (paint thickness) persist throughout most...
...Frazer (The Golden Bough). Unlike Frazer, an agnostic who deplored the mindless cruelty and superstition of pagan legends, Eliade, a Greek Orthodox Christian, comprehends ancient mythology as religious man's existential effort to understand the mystery of the universe. Little known outside university circles, Eliade has had a profound influence on a number of younger theologians-notably Emory's Thomas J. J. Altizer, one of the leading "death of God" thinkers. Another Eliade enthusiast was the late Paul Tillich, who for three years ran a joint seminar with him at Chicago on theology and the history of religion...
...Presidential candidate on the Vegetarian ticket and his stiff-upper-lipped wife; a mysterious adventurer, escaping from Philadelphia; a Negro undertaker who utters only "yes" and "no" and bursts into tears at the end of the trip almost a floating "I Lover Luey." thing. They can be profound, can't they? This one contrasts two kinds of people, the committed and the uncommitted. The narrator represents the alienated side, naturally. He was born in Monaco, and thus has no real nationality. His mother ran away when he was young and he never knew his father. He is a man without...
...test patterns. Last week NBC asked, "Is Anybody Honest?", then showed that more than a third of the country would lie, cheat and steal at the drop of the other fellow's wallet. ABC's forthcoming People Poll ("starring Garry Moore and You") will examine such profound questions as "Should the husband be the boss in the household?" (Yes, say 57% of a Gallup pre-poll), and "Is the husband boss in your household...
Stolpe supports the view of others close to him that Hammarskjöld, gifted with a fine mind and prodigious energies, was tormented by a profound and inviolable loneliness. Stolpe believes that this alienation from people around him can be traced to Hammarskjöld's childhood...