Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to increasing the cost of first-and third-class mail, they are currently escalating second-class (magazine and newspaper) rates by an average 127% over five years (see THE PRESS). If a raise anywhere near that size takes effect, nickel power will end-and with it, a profound phase of American history...
...fact that you are coming is a hopeful sign that you may not be as fatalistic about Japan's future as you have been made out to be. Considering the profound influence that the U.S. has exerted on Japan ever since the arrival of Commodore Perry's black ships, that would be an oddly antihistorical view. What is more, the fatalism could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Sincerely...
...crime -has mounted alarmingly. No laws have stemmed the tide of handguns that make killing so simple. Authority, legitimate or otherwise, is under attack as never before. Talk about politics is often murderous ("Oswald, where are you now that we need you?"). The Viet Nam War has had a profound effect on the American psyche, not only conditioning it to violence but often creating its own antiwar violence at home...
Baldwin seems particularly aware of his vulnerability in No Name in the Street, a collection of reminiscences raked from his private disasters and public disappointments. The book is walled in by a profound disillusion based partly on the state of the world as Baldwin sees it and partly on the unchangeable fact that Baldwin is now nearly 48 years old. "What in the world was I now," he laments, "but an aging, lonely, sexually dubious, politically outrageous, unspeakable erratic freak...
...before or since have disagreed. As for the present, she writes: "It is common knowledge that the condition of old people today is scandalous." Any pretense to patriarchy has been mocked by the urban-industrial dispersal of the family; the attitude of children toward aging parents, she writes, is profound duplicity under a veneer of official respect...