Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fritz Lang's masterpiece, one of the crowning narrative works of German expressionism. An extraordinary world of little girls' singing and agonizing hushes, where a child-molester (Peter Lorre), quietly walks the streets. A profound and moving examination of criminal ethics, of justice and insanity, with Lorre's most fascinating performance...
Well, did it happen quite that way? The series accomplished much, mainly in transmitting information about events that must never be forgotten. But it raised many questions, both trivial and profound. Scriptwriter Green, an intelligent and indefatigable craftsman, author of The Last Angry Man, designed an epic that follows a bourgeois German Jewish doctor, Josef Weiss, and his family through the stricken, incomprehensible years 1935 to 1945. Dr. and Mrs. Weiss die at Auschwitz, as does their oldest son, Karl. A daughter, Anna, becomes autistic after her rape by drunken Nazis; in a procession of the retarded and aged...
There is some truth to Professor Kilson's claim that "for black students to ask the very group they hold responsible for blacks' oppression to finance black solidarity is, to say the least, a most profound and disorienting contradition." But there is another contradiction that we raise, a fundamental one--that Harvard's avowed commitment to social progress stands in stark contrast to its profitable investment practices that have helped maintain white-minority rule and apartheid in South Africa...
...because of an improved ability to see the broad context as well as to concentrate on the details, both necessary to produce the maximum result. This being my experience, I naturally wanted to understand more about how such a simple procedure practiced two brief periods daily could have such profound effects...
Some parallels to the relationship between Government and press are immediately apparent: officials trying to put their best foot forward; newsmen pressing to discover what they may be concealing. Yet the difference between the news process and courtroom procedure is profound. The judge is missing-that judge who forbids misleading tactics, freely admonishes both sides, determines which evidence is valid and finally instructs the jury on how it should weigh what it has heard. In the news-gathering process, the press is both prosecutor and sole judge of its own activities-answerable in advance of publication to no one (though...