Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standard Farrell inventory: lives with insufficient love, the sorrows of gin, childhood wounds carried for a lifetime. Yet the stories cannot be easily dismissed or forgotten. Farrell's approach, like that of his mentor Theodore Dreiser, consists not only of primitive human drama but also of profound human sympathy. In this, his 51st book, the drama is crude but the sympathy incalculable...
...marks an important shift in emphasis from status to class concerns in the South, or at least Mississippi. The poor Mississippi whites rallying behind Finch are opposing poor blacks less as a competing status group and are fusing with them to form a new class alliance. This development has profound implications in light of the fact that Finch and his cohorts are in the process of creating an imposing and powerful political machine. Finch has fired great numbers of high-ranking state officials and replaced them with his own men. He wields almost dictatorial control over enormous amounts of federal...
Then again, Byrne comes through as a romantic in songs like "Happy Day" and "Pulled Up." He rambles on, saying he sees his name go down in history when he daydreams, and generally employing a stream of consciousness technique for pseudo-profound effects...
Meanwhile, at the military committee, Weizman and Gamassy will again take up the problem of Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai. While there is hope for the settlement of this issue, the committee may not be able to solve a problem that has profound emotional overtones for Begin as well as for Sadat: the Jewish settlements in Sinai. In his early talks with Begin, the Egyptian President thought he could ultimately persuade Israel to dismantle them as part of an overall peace settlement; thus he was shocked by Begin's subsequent vow that they would be maintained no matter what...
...stern warning from the State Department. "Recent developments in Italy," said State, "have increased the level of our concern. Our position is clear: we do not favor [Communist participation in government] and would like to see Communist influence in any Western European country reduced. The U.S. and Italy share profound democratic values and interests, and we do not believe that the Communists share those values and interests." That kind of language, while several decibels below the threatening warnings of Henry Kissinger, nonetheless marked a new high point of concern by the Carter Administration on the subject of Eurocommunism...