Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four had written letters to Sirica in hopes of avoiding a prison sentence. Only Ehrlichman's new lawyer, bearded, long-haired Ira M. Lowe, revealed in court what his client had pleaded. Ehrlichman, said Lowe, had expressed his "profound regret" for his role in the Watergate conspiracy. Wrote Ehrlichman: "I have been found to be a perjurer. No reversal on appeal can remove the stigma." Lowe said that Ehrlichman had asked to be allowed to spend his sentence working with 6,000 Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, using his legal talents to help them with land-use problems...
...familiarity with high cuisine, wine and good tailoring was thus all naturally acquired. So too was his profound abhorrence of totalitarianism. Says Angleton: "If one has lived much of his life abroad, as I have, one is apt to judge his country more precious than do those who know no other country well." He recalls the day in 1936, when he was 18 and working through a summer holiday as an apprentice mechanic in National Cash Register's Paris factory, that the workers heard about the Wehrmacht reoccupation of the Rhineland. Says Angleton: "The workers to a man threw...
Died. Henry Pitney ("Pit") Van Dusen, 77, venerable Protestant theologian and president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary from 1945 to 1963; of heart disease; in Belle Meade, N.J. Van Dusen combined a profound faith with skepticism over excessive dogmatism and clerical parochialism. His ordination was held up for two years while Presbyterian leaders agonized over his right to question the literal biblical rendition of the Virgin birth. During Van Dusen's tenure as president, Union's enrollment doubled and such studies as psychiatry and religious drama joined the curriculum. A prime organizer of the World Council...
...probably not condone his imitator's work, inspired as it seems to be by a new resurgence in Agee's popularity and only partially a genuine at compassionate interest in its subject. He would probably also balk at Remembering James Agee, self-indulgent in its length and in its profound sentimentality. His famous men and women were not well-known figures to be dealt with as he said, "journalists, sociologist, politicians, entertainers, humanitarians, priests, or artists" would deal with them, but seriously...
...profound religious devotion pervades all of Messaien's compositions. Through superb craft, he communicates this to us in the most vivid terms. As the music slowly ascends at the sublimely peaceful ending of the Quartet, we are drawn willingly with it toward Messaein's mystic vision...