Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deliberately downplayed the narrow, particular issues upon which the other Democratic candidates had focused their campaigns in favor of the more general, and in the Carter camp's view, overarching issue of governmental integrity and accountability, as personified by the President of the United States. Furthermore, national polls demonstrated profound differences of opinion among Carter supporters with regard not only to their own positions on such controversial issues as busing, but also in their perception of Carter's stands on these issues...
...pending transition of power in Salisbury raises profound questions about the future of South Africa, where unrest in the black urban townships has continued sporadically since June; last week racial violence spread to downtown Johannesburg for the first time. In Rhodesia, the immediate question is whether the rival black factions can get together to help form a government. At present there are at least six candidates for the leadership of an independent Zimbabwe, as African nationalists have long called Rhodesia. Among these, the best known-and probably the most moderate-is Joshua Nkomo, 59, who negotiated inconclusively with Smith...
...show of visual games and illusions that opened last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts may not be the most profound art exhibition in recent years, but it is among the most exotic and diverting. It is called "Anamorphoses." The word comes from the Greek roots for "shape" and "again," and it applies to images or patterns that look illegible, mere scrawls and smears, until reconstituted-either by looking at them side-on or by glimpsing their reflections in a specially placed cylindrical, conic or pyramidal mirror. The organizers, two young Dutch artist-scholars named Michael Schuyt...
Reverend Paulanne Balch is also a member of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church and is a graduate of Andover-Newton School. She is presently a chaplain at Mt. Auburn Hospital. She says that "born again" is the experience of psychic birth marked by a profound sense of self-recognition and participation in one's life and culture. There is an acknowledgment of the condition of one's life and an experience of pain connected with the loss of illusions. Then a descent, a letting go. Finally, she adds, there's a resurrection where the body is healed; "the scales fall...
...says. "I had a profound curiousity and at the same time a toleration for the ambiguities and a sense of humor and patience," she says...