Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, a dissenting opinion drafted by the three student members of the Committee holds that "the present option system satisfies no one," and that "the costs of [reexamining grading] are outweighed by the need to respond to the profound concern of the present first-year class...
...Guerre Est Finie) acknowledge their debt to the master in every temporal experiment. Rohmer is no less a disciple, but much less a film maker. His work is sterile in its perfection; it lacks nothing but passion. And without that Proustian quality, all drama, all conflict, however witty or profound, becomes mere talk...
...Henrietta is a hilarious anthology of gaffes; when she smiles, lipstick enamels her teeth. When she rises from a table, her lap is upholstered with crumbs. Price tags cling to her new clothes; her fingers dangle from hapless hands, like stockings hung to dry. But she has one profound saving grace: wealth beyond avarice. "Let me take all this away from you," schemes her new suitor, and sweeps her off her purse...
SOMETIMES behind the bars, we look at the four walls and reconsider. For if, after all, we are sure that the prison is really sex, if its walls are really built of the most profound and puzzling differences between the sexes and of the mysteries of sexuality, then who knows but Mailer may be right, after all, and maybe we'd be happiest being brave in the prison, making love and babies in it, and carrying on. For if the prison really is sex-nothing more or less vital-then outside the prison, the land may be lonely...
...newsstand alarms (PLANE CRASH AT TEL AVIV). Finally, Le Clézio's Everyman goes numb-nature's last defense. Spoken words become mere sounds, a meaningless buzz in the ears. The most urgent printed words-a poem by Baudelaire, a proclamation of war-have no more profound effect than the advice he reads (without really reading) on a book of matches: PLEASE CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING...