Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pleased with the book and its early sales. "Some people have complained that it's not a profound book," she says. "Well, that's not what I intended to do. People say, 'You should have taken a year off and really done art in-depth study of CBS News and how it works.' Well, that wasn't my story. This is my story. The reason I'm happy with it is that nobody has ever quit television news and told about...
...manipulation of armies, and music, with its manipulation of tones, suggests itself to him through his study of Tai Chi, one of the Chinese martial arts. Through these exercises, which teach a stylized and highly disciplined form of self-defense. Chen claims to have acquired the self-control and profound concentration that he brings to his conducting. The bare hands are the weapons both for self-defense and for conducting, and Chen has trained his to function "with their own mind, and yet without mind...
Still, he does bear the mark of his 19 years there. While in Boston, he eats many of his meals in Chinatown, an opportunity for home-style cooking he doesn't often get in Geneva. And, on a somewhat more profound level, his thought pattern and artistic aims are clearly Eastern in origin...
...country of residence has become a touchstone for the entire process of détente. Therefore I trust that the defense of that freedom will become a leitmotiv of the European Security Conference. It is being decided right now whether détente is to be a comprehensive, profound process of historic significance involving the democratization and opening up of Soviet society, or whether it is to be a cynical political game serving only the short-term political and economic interests of some individuals, a plot behind the backs of the people at large...
Jerzy Kosinski's work glistens with social observation and psychological apprehension. Not since Conrad has an Eastern European found so profound a voice in the English tongue. Such relentless talent, such flashes of genius, make the reader hope one day for a book that can look past retribution to seek...