Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN The Touch, Ingmar Bergman's first English-language film, knows how tedious and heavy-handed a Bergman movie can be. Even the successful Scenes from a Marriage, with many scenes that are at once profound yet understated in presentation, is sometimes long-winded. In Face to Face, Bergman's newest film, the poigancy of the best scenes is undercut by insistence on spelling out his message over and over. In this case, the overkill is not so much verbal as structural; the entire conception of the film is flawed. In Scenes from a Marriage, one overlooks...
There is, finally, a real fear among some Senators that a committee so powerful and fully informed could do profound damage if it sprang any leaks. Last week the Senate Rules Committee voted 5 to 4 against proposals by the Church committee to set up a new watchdog unit to keep an eye on the intelligence agencies. But the fight is not over yet. This month Church plans to carry the struggle to the floor of the Senate, where he feels the younger liberals in both parties may help him carry the day. The "crucial" element of reform, says Church...
Another truth concerns the child's profound craving for the miraculous. The very young live in an animistic universe, where chairs have souls and conversations take place with dolls and trees. Fairy tales mirror these credences -but place them in perspective. Through the nerves the child learns that a kick at a door hurts the foot, not the door. Through the narratives a child understands that the supernatural belongs, in the words of the Grimms' Frog Prince, "in the old days, when wishing still helped." When actuality intrudes too abruptly upon the child's world, the price...
Though the Revolutionary period was an era of profound political change, it was not until after the war had ended that America saw the results in new laws and changed behavior. The Revolution was above all a struggle to protect and enhance liberty, and though liberty was at first thought to mean only freedom from Britain, in the end the concept extended to a wide range of human affairs. Some prominent men, like President Timothy Dwight of Yale, feared that the new liberality would mean an end to all morality...
...crime wave that began in the early 1960s and continues today has been all the more disturbing to citizens because it followed nearly three decades of low or at least stable crime rates. Rising crime during a period of rising prosperity was a profound shock, particularly following an era of political calm, apparent national unity, and widespread optimism about the strength and virtue of American society. No doubt Americans of the 1830s were equally shocked when the tumult and licentiousness of the Jacksonian era followed on the remembered-and perhaps exaggerated-heroics of the Revolutionary years...