Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important book in his life is, of course, the Bible. Another that had profound impact was James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The book Reinhold Niebuhr on Politics was important in developing his attitude toward public life...
...eulogy, Cardinal Dearden noted that the city is in the grip of "a violence which comes from a profound and deep malaise . . . and a moral weakness that is reflected in a disrespect for human life." As he spoke, a wailing police siren drowned out some of his words...
...deepest cause of stress when playing with partners is a vulnerable sense of tormented and helpless guilt or responsibility, which destroys tennis strokes and poisons the atmosphere of the game. Profound, personal involvement of any sort off the court -"deep love or hate," or both together?can invade the game and make being tennis partners intolerable. (Playing against someone you love is much easier.) Fathers or mothers partnered with a favorite child are often as tense as husbands and wives. Father and son players know this all too well. A tournament player learned long ago that his game goes...
Reliance on Western credit reflects some profound changes in Eastern Europe. Since 1970, when riots by Polish workers protesting higher food prices brought down Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, Soviet-bloc countries have made a determined effort to improve the material standard of living of their people. Encouraged by diplomatic détente, they have developed a voracious appetite for Western products, buying everything from consumer goods to entire factories. One result: the economic woes of the capitalist world, to which Communist planners initially thought they would be immune, by last year made themselves felt on the other side...
Several of the author's themes are rooted in the profound conservatism and family-centeredness of the Chinese. The copying of the perfect model, whether aesthetic or moral, was considered a higher achievement than expressing originality. The Communists have perpetuated this tradition by extolling new kinds of political models, individuals or institutions that embody all the Maoist virtues, like the soldier Lei Feng or the Tachai production brigade. Because of China's collectivism familial past, the worst punishment an individual can receive is to be isolated from the commu nity and ridiculed by his neighbors. Solomon illustrates this...