Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work toward recycling all wastes (see box, page 60). There is profit in the process. Paper, glass, and scrap copper have long been reused. Fly ash can be recaptured and pressed into building blocks; reclaimed sulfur dioxide could ease the global sulfur shortage. The oil industry could do a profound service for smoggy cities by removing the lead from gasoline (motorists would pay 20 more per gallon). The packaging industry would benefit all America by switching to materials that rot?fast. By one es timate, burning scrap paper and garbage in efficient incinerators could generate 10% of the nation...
...attend half-hour sessions throughout the night on such issues as the depletion of natural resources and the psychological problems of overcrowding. The organizers hope to awaken a public awareness that survival itself is at stake. Says Hayes: "We're going to have to bring about some very profound changes in our society...
...weed's long-term effects are still under hot scientific debate, the only serious dangers they discuss are legal.* But they do not puff the splendors in the grass in the old unwary Leary style. They state categorically, for instance, that "there is no such thing as a profound revelation while stoned." The book is not intended as a polemic; it is merely a report that, in addition to discussing the subjective feelings of being high, includes such how-to items as rolling a marijuana cigarette, cleaning an ounce of the stems and seeds, and making a buy safely...
...human destiny, and that destiny is tragic. Quite simply, Hamlet is a world, and like the world, it cannot be ignored. Every man has lived some part of the play, and to be a man is to be inextricably involved in the play. Hamlet probes and grips the profound themes of existence-death, love, time, fidelity, friendship, family, the relationships of a man and a woman, a son and father, a mother and son, murder and madness. Above all, it probes the value of existence, man's most anguishing question put in the form that every man knows from...
...spend in 1932, the average weekly wage of factory workers was $16.21, the cost of a Chevy was $445, etc. The New Deal becomes a kind of family album of brain-truster portraits, with a few hasty tributes from Old Liberal Phillips. For instance: "Social Security was the most profound and the most enduring" of F.D.R.'s reforms...