Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through such domestic and White Housekeeping chores, Lyndon moved with profound confidence. But all week he was jostled frequently by the less familiar challenges of foreign affairs. His aides began to refer to the week as a "crisis an hour" era. But, in fact, the crises were mostly small-bore disturbances-such as civilian riots in Panama, a U.S. submarine sent to the China Sea to keep Indonesian President Sukarno in his place, and the ouster of two U.S. diplomats from Tanzania...
...hazard in teaching new math is that its basic concepts-sets, number systems not based on ten, lattices-require profound comprehension by teachers, which usually entails plenty of upgrading study. Professor Robert Wirtz, an associate of Beberman's at the University of Illinois, visited more than 100 elementary schools all over the U.S. and reported: "The teachers I found are frightened. They don't understand the new math or why they are supposed to teach...
...that knits the evening together is that dramatic vice, a narrator, whose luckless duty is to tell the playgoer why, for the moment at least, there is no play going on. When the actors take over, War and Peace springs to life-life with all its joyous, grievous and profound trivia, its indestructible reality. Children are born, men and women marry or do not marry, father fights with son and son with father, the old die. Peace is love, war is evil. In war, the young die, husband is torn from wife, the round of daily life is violated...
...created literature. Night after night the old churl sat by a snug fire in his splendid mansion and wrote hate letters to a world he chose to think had cheated him. In 1726, after six years of meticulous composition, he published Gulliver's Travels, the most profound and powerful satire ever written in English...
...Lilienthal pushed TVA into public power, running afoul of private-utility magnates, notably Wendell Willkie, then president of Commonwealth & Southern. Bold and confident, Lilienthal was capable of shrewd self-appraisal. "Mentally on the quick side, resourceful; ingenious, particularly in discussion and strategy development," he wrote of himself. "But not profound, nor capable of understanding subtle psychological analysis. Impatient. Not a natural mixer...