Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from a policy that seemed to make no material sense. But Nixon-a President determined to behave in a Presidential way-and Kissinger the great power diplomat would brook no compromise. And Nixon's personal relationship with Kissinger, unfettered as it was by ulterior political motives, became deep and profound. Kissinger is the President's only post-1960 acquaintance to have become a member of his personal inner circle. He sees Nixon more frequently than do any of his other appointees. And as Nixon's confidante, Kissinger passes the crucial judgments on the very options that he and his staff...
...question has even larger implications. The fact is that Australia is approaching a watershed as profound as the moment at the beginning of the Pacific war when the Japanese had seized Singapore and stripped the country of its British defense shield. Australia's late Prime Minister John Curtin at that time declared that his country would henceforth look to the U.S. for its security, "free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship" with Britain. Today the U.S. is engaged in extricating itself from Indochina and is unlikely to make new commitments in Southeast Asia...
...conspiracy of this kind could involve almost anyone, but surely Martin King, for all his weaknesses, was killed because behind those weaknesses lay profound strengths. . . He lived in his time and by design and accident made himself a force beyond...
...vocal U.S. collegians, a TIME cover story profiled seven 1968 graduates who were particularly articulate about their discontent with U.S. life. Their common characteristics, the story reported, were idealism and "cynicism about society's willingness to embrace their ideals." Since that report (June 7, 1968), the U.S. has undergone profound changes in attitudes toward the war, youthful protest and culture. What have those years done to the seven graduates...
...with the usual two-thirds to three-fourths who enjoy it now. To that end, some institutions have quit awarding tenure to anyone until their fogies retire, sometimes with the lure of hefty severance pay. The University of Wisconsin's new Green Bay campus is trying a more profound idea: in addition to regular faculty members it hires "lecturers" who agree to waive tenure in exchange for the salary of a full professor...