Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...praised the idea, included in the CEP plan, of demanding that students take five courses that do not count towards concentration. "He said the implementations of their rule "would have a very profound effect. It would get at the English major who takes English history courses for his distribution requirement -- and there are departments that allow almost any courses in the catologue to count for concentration...
...Your story on Father Divine's death [Sept. 17] was delightful. But you did not include his most profound remark: "The trouble with the world is that there are too many metaphysicians who don't know how to tangibilate...
...reason it was included. Zigmond tackles a fascinating subject, "Problems of the White Civil Rights Worker," but his handling of it approaches the simple-minded. After a summer with the Student Woodlawn Area Project of Chicago, he might have written a detailed reminiscence, providing through suggestion and implication a profound understanding of the subject. Instead, beyond a few anecdotes, he draws less on his personal experience than on the rhetoric of various chiefs and braves in the Movement...
...some down-to-earth byproducts for U.S. business. Just as the necessities of World War II led to such lasting innovations as the jet plane and the aerosol spray, the $5 billion-a-year exploration of space has started a beneficent fallout of commercial products and processes that promises profound effects on the economy and on U.S. life...
Bloody well develop it. And so he does in the course of this minor, deft, deliciously droll and sometimes startlingly profound little novel by P. H. Newby (The Barbary Light, Revolution and Roses), the most ingenious and beguiling Puck to appear on the scene since Henry Green came popping out of the all-too-hollow log of contemporary English literature...