Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing It Cool. The shift in Venezuela's political climate has been just as profound. Under the mercurial Betancourt, Venezuela erupted with fierce political loyalties and hatreds. It was a country where the governing A.D. party split into feuding factions, where Castroites at one time were killing a policeman a day. In his cool, quiet way, Leoni has put on a damper...
Sounds profane; sounds profound...
...approached success. His writings on the Negro revolution mix, in a very mechanical way, the jargon of Sociology and the rhetoric of moral imprecation. There is no fusion of technique and sensibility. This piece in Mosaic seems to me no less mechanical synthesis of literary allusion and Profound Truth...
...Chief of the Harvard Psychiatric Service had sufficient command of contemporary philosophy, sufficient understanding of the Freudianism he popularizes so crudely, he might serve as a legitimate preceptor for this community. Instead he spouts mindless cliches, offers frightened and frightening prescriptions, and debases an issue which is far more profound and serious than the good doctor, I fear, will ever realize...
Nonetheless, as the convocation made clear, Pacem in Terris remains-in the words of Robert Hutchins-"one of the most profound and significant documents of our age." What it offers to men facing contemporary risks and realities, said Economist Barbara Ward, is "a glimpse of how the world might look under the governance of love...