Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Profound Effect. Nonetheless, Buckley's defection had a profound effect on conservatives, particularly on those in Congress. "What Buckley has done is pull a plug on the President's most important reservoir," says Howard Phillips, a Washington lobbyist for the American Conservative Union. At the very least, Buckley's pronouncement will force many on the right to reconsider the reasons why they want Nixon to stay in office. Says Congressman Bauman: "Some of us feel that Senator Buckley said many of the things that we have had on our minds, although we may not agree that Nixon...
...fears that a faltering French economy would lead, after election year 1976, to a popular-front government headed by Socialist Francois Mitterrand, with Communist ministers in key posts. He fears above all that West Germany may become a political "neutral" in East-West relations, which could lead to a profound change not only in France's foreign policy but also possibly in its form of government...
...probably won't. Over Here is so slick and cheerfully witless that it will doubtless endure on Broadway, not so much on its own merits as on the strength of its public's profound desire to nestle in the world it dreams up. No matter that it is mostly a travesty of the period, of the big-band sound, of the '40s fads and the jitterbug and, above all, the wartime patriotism that seems now so attractive and so unrecoverable...
...time (1853) this sonata was a radical work. Its innovative harmonies and grandiose scope threatened and bewildered earlier Romantics who concentrated on shorter lyrical forms. However, Wagner, in a letter to Liszt, wrote, "The sonata is beautiful beyond all expression, great, gracious, profound, noble, sublime like yourself...
...indecisive outcome of the election seemed to reflect the country's disillusionment with its political leaders as much as its lack of confidence in either party's ability to govern. That does not bode well for firm solutions to Britain's profound problems. It means, moreover, that before long Britain will almost certainly have another election...