Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immersion in The Crimson, which he headed during 1969, the year of the occupation and bust at University Hall and the year the newspaper called editorially for the victory of the National Liberation Front in Vietnam. Looking back at his actions during the late sixties, Fallows believes the most profound change in his character since his graduation has been acquiring an ability to accept the human decency of individuals who he believes are guilty of indecent acts. "It always came as somewhat of a surprise back in those days to see that people you thought were doing bad things were...
...relationships from childhood on. None of the people she has loved, from her nanny, her father and her high school girlfriends to her adult lovers, has provided her with a real sense of comfort and belonging. Instead, each of the loved ones has stunted her emotional growth in some profound...
...bodies of 30 suspected guerrillas were found near the town of Pilar in Buenos Aires province. Residents of the area said they had heard shooting and an explosion in the night. The bodies had all been dynamited, apparently to hamper identification. The government promised "an exhaustive and profound investigation," but nothing has happened...
Roots most closely resembles a historical novel, a form that Haley does not seem to have studied too carefully. His narrative is a blend of dramatic and melodramatic fiction and fact that wells from a profound need to nourish himself with a comprehensible past. Haley recreates the Old South of mansions and slave shacks, fully aware that chains and blood ties were at times indistinguishable. The book dramatically details slave family life-birth, courtship, marriage ("jumping the broom"), death and the ever present fear of being sold off and having to leave your...
McCarthy devotes several pages to a demonstration that "France has always mixed politics with literature, and many great writers have been polemists (sic)," including Rabelais, Pascal and Voltaire. This stab at elevating Celine's propaganda to the level of genuinely profound thinkers in disparate eras, when the issues were different, is a bit strained. When McCarthy ranks Celine as a contributor to "a distinguished, yet troubling tradition," his discussion smacks of lame and unnecessary justification...