Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drugs, insubordination, racial animosities and fragging are all a part of the disintegrating discipline in the U.S. Army in Viet Nam. But exactly how bad is the situation in the ranks? According to an Army study, there may well exist such a profound crisis of discipline that the Army's ability to function is in doubt. So says an unusually revealing Army memorandum surveying military discipline in the entire Pacific Command that is currently being circulated clown to the battalion level...
...defined by D.H. Lawrence. In his novel Women in Love one of his characters says, "It takes two people to make a murder: a murderer and a murderee. And a murderee is a man who is murderable. And a man who is murderable is a man who in a profound if hidden lust desires to be murdered...
...Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister John Marshall, who had jetted in from Wellington and periodically slipped up Kirchberg's backstairs to huddle with the British negotiators. At one point, Schumann stormed that Rippon's demands were "no basis for discussion," and he spoke of his "most profound sadness" at the turn of events...
...furor El Topo is neither a cathartic masterpiece, as its disciples believe, nor a con job, and Jodorowsky is neither messiah nor mountebank. There are scenes of brilliance in El Topo, followed by sequences of unwieldy pretension. The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple...
...familiar that only a genius or a black militant novelist can escape literary predestination. Madison Jones is neither, though he is a very good writer with all sorts of credentials from the Southern establishment, including a Sewanee Review fellowship in fiction and the unreserved recommendations of James Dickey ("profound"), Allen Tate ("the Thomas Hardy of the South") and Andrew Lytle ("as spare as Aeschylus; as rich as Euripides...