Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That runners often ramble on about the benefits of their sport is simple testimony to a very sad fact of contemporary life: the experience of well-being and profound physical vitality is a rarity in our culture...
Much hotter disagreement came over both the form and extent of tax cuts for companies and investors. In itself that marks a profound shift in tax philosophy. Past cuts have been aimed pri marily at giving consumers more after-tax dollars to spend, in the hope that their buying would lift the economy; business spending to build new plants, modernize machinery and introduce new products was expected to follow automatically. But investment now is very low, and the absorbing question of tax policy has become how to design cuts to spur the largest rise in investment...
Much of the trouble stemmed from the fact that commercial projects were designed by a small group of Western-educated technocrats, who failed to take into account the profound effect that such changes would have on the Persian psyche. Housing projects, for example, are depressing to most Iranians, whose tradition demands an architectural style that emphasizes seclusion and privacy. Many residents of such projects feel as though they are living in public view, and they detest it. Tehran Sociologist Ehsan Naraghi, who received his doctorate from the Sorbonne, believes that under the pressure of economic development there has been...
...should have done to stop the April coup or what the U.S. should do now about Afghanistan, Iranian and Pakistani critics merely lapse into vague expressions of frustration; they have few recommendations. But that, too, is part of the problem with CENTO: it is afflicted with a profound, inarticulate discontent with American policy, which is viewed as "retreat," "withdrawal," "failure of will" or "abandonment...
...bishop, I would have wanted to be a I journalist," Albino Luciani once told an interviewer. Throughout his lifetime the new Pope has been a man of words, written and spoken, in sermons and interviews, in dozens of articles and several books. The samples below reveal a man with profound conservative instincts but a light touch and a sense of humor. They also show that, despite a parochial career, John Paul I has wide cultural interests...