Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues that agitated the voters were profound-more profound than any that Kennedy and Nixon had fought over in 1960. The question of nuclear warheads, though it got most of the headline attention, was largely a sham debate. More basic was troubled Canada's need to set a new economic course, and along with this was what Pearson called "the major issue which faces all Canadians today"-the fissures that have developed between the one-third of the nation that is French, and the English majority...
...courage." As a description of personal rights and the role of government, Pacem in Terns so closely conformed to Western practice and ideals that the U.S. State Department abandoned its custom of ignoring papal encyclicals and said: "No country could be more responsive than the U.S. to its profound appeal to, and reassertion of, the dignity of the individual, and man's right to peace, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." An American diplomat in Rome exulted: "It embodies everything the U.S. has been working for. We couldn't agree with it more...
...every describable way, naturally occurring profound experiences that have been reported to me (most common-intense love, esthetic entrancement, religious ecstasy) in open-ended questionnaires resemble psychedelic drug-induced experiences of the subjects of Drs. Leary and Alpert...
...psilocybin through Drs. Leary and Alpert report that their lives have been changed for the better. I have taken these drugs a number of times myself. I feel a reverence for the experiences they have induced, just as I feel a reverence for my most cherished, naturally occurring profound experiences...
...voyagers in the wasteland," said Gardner of the new enterprise. "We're fed up with present television, and we're planning entertainment which is profound as well as good...