Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events contributed to the calmer view. One was the silent, heroic posture of Jacqueline Kennedy. Even more significant was the orderly transition with which one democratic leader gave way to another in a moment of great stress. Acknowledged with profound respect, it created a sense of reassurance and clarity about the U.S.'s role in the free world. In Bonn, a political scientist said: "The mechanism of a great democracy turned on, smoothly, calmly, if somberly, adjusting to tragedy, overcoming it. The Cabinet and legislature continued to function. It was, as it had to be, business as usual...
Extremely slow breathing through alternate nostrils was tried by the girls "because it has a very profound calming effect." They also did "bellows breathing," a series of 30 very fast gulps of breath, and followed this with two violent breaths, one slow, deep breath, and then a long, hold breath with closed eyes. "This gets out the guck at the bottom of your lungs," Moynahan said...
...second session of the Vatican Council has dealt with schemata (agenda items) that have been of primary interest to Roman Catholics. This week the prelates are taking up an issue of profound interest to millions outside the church-the relationship of Catholicism to other faiths...
Cast Iron & Silver. Bored with string quartets and big orchestras, Barshai set out to build an 18th century chamber orchestra that he hoped would do justice to the "more profound" composers-Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Mozart. He found plenty of recruits eager to put up with his tough discipline. To achieve its tight togetherness, the group practices six days a week, eleven months a year. And the work is all the tougher because Barshai insists that all the instruments (save the harpsichord and cellos) be played from a standing position, just as in Bach...
...McKayle served as a vehicle for Carmen de Lavallade and her exquisite dances as wife, sweetheart, and mother. But another vehicle might have been chosen which did not end in the melodrama of a slave's murder. In this episode a dancer expresses impotent rage--a very profound emotion-- by running downstage, screwing up his face, and making a punching motion across his body. McKayle should be commended for trying to treat serious themes and not resting content, as some masters do, to play prima donna. But he could make his message much more powerful by expressing them with stronger...