Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ostling found the contrast with covering more conventional religion stories profound "The movement," he says, "is amorphous, evasive, going on everywhere and nowhere." To sample it, he visited young evangelists and their followings in Michigan, Indiana and upstate New York. Ostling brings wide experience to his beat. He has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and another in religion from George Washington University. Before joining TIME in 1969, he was on the staff of Christianity Today for four years...
...then told the seniors that their generation possessed an "unusually strong horizontal cohesiveness," and that the "youth wave" of recent years "has brought profound changes through-out the nation and those changes that are surviving in this University seem, for the most part, to be good ones...
...lost the Civil War, the South succeeded at spiritual secession. In other words the South has been isolated from the national experience. Notes Historian C. Vann Woodward: "Success and victory are still national habits of mind." Or as Arthur Schlesinger puts it: "American character is bottomed upon the profound conviction that nothing in the world is beyond its power to accomplish." The Southern experience, on the other hand, is not with success, but with failure; its preoccupation is not with innocence, but with guilt. The Southern heritage is a very un-American one of poverty, frustration, humiliation and defeat. Because...
...Soviets were sufficiently disturbed by such profound allegiance to a foreign power that several hundred Jews who openly avowed their loyalty to Israel were arrested in a police dragnet last June-immediately after the would-be skyjackers were picked up at Leningrad's Smolny airport. If other Soviet citizens had similarly supported another country, very probably the same would have happened. An unknown number were released after months in prison. But five are scheduled to be tried soon in Riga, another nine in Kishinev, and one in Odessa. The trials, however, are apparently not having the effect that...
...passed on from generation to generation. "As each new set of parents accords its young the treatment it received earlier," he says, "every child is left to traverse life's problems alone." What both young and old need to break out of that pattern, he suggests, is profound empathy...