Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hara's work is far more profound than its trappings would suggest. Although he has occasionally been dismissed simply as the ranking historian of American manners, the Amy Vanderbilt of the Gibbsonville set, John O'Hara is one of America's important writers. For he is one of her most incisive and bitter social critics...
Cynical as he is, O'Hara believes in some kind of salvation. His solution, like his criticism, is neither new nor profound, but it is handled with extra-ordinary skill. For O'Hara, salvation comes through brotherhood, through man's deep love of man. Where people's hearts and lives connect, there is freedom and meaning...
...tiny Albania, seizing any excuse to defy the Soviets, was gushing Stalin's praise. All over the country, monuments to the dead dictator were hung with garlands of flowers; Tirana newspapers published his picture and babbled their "love and profound respect for his teachings," Red China might also have been expected, to use the occasion to glorify Stalin's memory, but remembering the dictator's open distrust of his Asian comrades, Peking chose not to be hypocritical...
night cut the question with profound...
...done. For a proper understanding of the Oresteia not one strophe of those choric odes can be left out. From the plot action alone, the audience might suppose itself to be watching a rather unpleasant melodrama. The poet is intent that we know what profound issues are at stake. These odes are further remarkable in that they presuppose an Athenian audience able to grasp their content at a first hearing. If, not what would have been the point of composing them...