Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...method for redressing wrongs committed by the country's high officials. We suffer no dearth of precedents (they fill over 2000 pages in House and Senate record books), and no lack of officials capable of presiding over the proceedings. But when the nation itself is in a period of profound social turmoil--as in the years of our impeached but unconvicted president, Andrew Johnson, and now--any challenge to even the temporary power holders seems to threaten disaster. Clearly, the Founding Fathers intended impeachment to be a last resort, but just as clearly did they distinguish between president and presidency...
...major dramatic burden falls on the Evangelist, an emotionally involved narrator. Karl Dan Sorensen performed brilliantly in this demanding role. Within the confining limits of the baroque recitative, a form which Bach uses with variety and subtlety, Sorensen sang with remarkable expression. With flawless intonation and a profound understanding of the text, he gave a beautiful and deeply moving performance...
...feast of St. Nicholas in 1273, Italian Dominican Friar Thomas Aquinas entered a chapel in Naples to say Mass before beginning a day of lecturing and writing. During the Mass, something profound happened to him: some kind of physical or nervous breakdown, perhaps accompanied by an overpowering mystical vision. Afterward, he ceased dictating his theological masterwork, the Summa Theologiae. "All that I have written," he explained to concerned friends, "seems to me like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me." He never wrote another line. Three months later-700 years ago last month-he died...
...Bliss. The truth of certain maxims once thought demode and elitist now reasserts itself: for instance, that a posture of cool boredom can in itself become boring; that a perfunctory infatuation with the signs and portents of "masscult" means nothing unless it is subjected-as by Oldenburg-to a profound change and rethinking; that banality is not always imaginative bliss. And if one happens to find sense in these propositions, it is hard to take all that seriously the marginal artists whose work Alloway has selected. Their work may have this or that to do with signs, but on aesthetic...
...because we're students at a school shaken to its foundations by 1969's events, events so important to some of our immediate predecessors that they felt a profound sense of loss at their passing, it seems worthwhile to try to understand the Strike anyway...