Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...musical. The average hu man type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe a Marx. Looking back over 60 years of the Russian Revolution, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev last week pronounced the stupendous enterprise a success: "Comrades, no event in world history has had such a profound and lasting effect on mankind as the great October Socialist Revolution."* Listening to Brezhnev's grandiloquence was an audience that included Socialist and Communist leaders from all over the world who had gathered in Moscow to do homage to the Revolution. The capital's streets were festooned with...
More alarming is the fact that nine out of ten high school students attend small-city and rural institutions or quiet suburban schools, and that these schools, once the very symbols of the best the U.S. could do for its children, are also suffering from a profound malaise. For the 55% or so of American teen-agers who do not go on to college, high school is the apex of their formal educational career; they will prosper or join the ranks of the unemployed largely on the basis of what the schools teach them...
...benevolent elite responsible for conveying the "right" news to the public. When reporters do agree to keep things off-the-record because they believe a beneficial policy might be undermined if it receives too much or too little publicity, they should realize tha such a decision carries profound implications...
...will certainly be a big enough hit to keep Columbia's stockholders happy. More important, Close Encounters offers proof, if any were needed, that Spielberg's reputation is no accident. His new movie is richer and more ambitious than Jaws, and it reaches the viewer at a far more profound level than Star Wars. The film is not perfect, but, like Stanley Kubrick's similar (if far chillier) 2001: A Space Odyssey, it uses science fiction thrills to seduce the audience into looking at the cosmos metaphysically. Close Encounters is, moreover, its creator's highly personal statement about mankind...
...Wall Street had expected, and it only brings the discount rate closer to other interest rates that the board had pushed up earlier. Federal Reserve Governor Henry Wallich told TIME, "Quite honestly, this talk of a dispute has been greatly overdone. Believe me, there just aren't any profound disagreements...