Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Open Hostility. But Oswald was not satisfied with his menial state in life, and 18 months after his defection he decided he wanted to go home. Says the Warren Commission: "His attempt to renounce his citizenship had been an open expression of hostility against the U.S. and a profound rejection of his early life. The dramatic break with society in America now had to be undone. His return to the U.S. publicly testified to the utter failure of what had been the most important act of his life...
...Democratic platform specifically declares: "Control of the use of nu clear weapons must remain solely with the highest elected official in the country-the President of the United States." Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee Hubert Humphrey is going around asking audiences: "The question before the electorate is simple, prophetic, profound-which of these men, Lyndon Johnson or Barry Goldwater, do you want to have his hand on the nuclear trigger?" (As against that, G.O.P. Veep Nominee William Miller says that by the time a NATO commander under attack got in touch with Johnson to see if he could use nuclear weapons...
...help of his cunning heroine (Jeanne Moreau), he cruelly forces the family's closets and drags out its skeletons: avarice, impotence, sadism, frigidity, fetishism, rape, murder. The film is not Buñuel's best,, but it demonstrates anew that he is the most powerful and profound of cinema satirists...
...inherits a marina in Southern California, and with it a crooked Chinese manager who has a lifetime contract. The situation is un promising and the dialogue ("Only registered guests are permitted to drown in the pool") needs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but inside Mickey Rooney there is a profound sense of the absurd; and last week in moments of wordless action - resisting seduction by Guest Star Dina Merrill or running through downtown streets wearing only a mink coat - he developed humor in the tradition of comic pathos...
...Tuesday late in October, a number of prominent men will gather in a high-ceilinged chamber, lit with chandeliers and decorated with portraits of Presidents, to consider a piece of legislation which affects the fundamental assumptions of their society and which has its most profound implications for a younger generation...