Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magic Show of Dr. Ma-Gico," however, comes not from profound statements about the human condition which it seems every play strives to embody but from the success of a tightly disciplined, clearly professional group of actors coordinating a spectacular production...
...Sakharov for the peace prize in a surprisingly choleric and wide-ranging 3,000-word article for Oslo's daily Aftenposten. In it, he attacked Western liberals for what he termed their readiness to denounce oppression in rightist countries and their reluctance to criticize the Soviet Union. "Such profound hypocrisy is characteristic of American political life today," Solzhenitsyn continued, referring to Watergate. "Without in any way defending Nixon or the Republican Party, I am amazed at the affected, loudmouthed wrath of the Democrats. Wasn't American democracy full of mutual deception during previous election campaigns...
...pure Morris: the best (the sidelong wit and the marvelously supple prose, now gold, now grit) along with the worst (the wooden dialogue, the coy hints at profound meanings that never quite come out from behind the prose screens). More than any of his 17 previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy...
...manifests itself as a clash of personalities, the political and academic issues that hinge upon the outcome remain more important. Although racial considerations are rarely mentioned in the current Faculty discussions of the Department the fact remains that the Faculty's decisions when it restructures Afro will have a profound effect on the undergraduate careers of the majority of Harvard's black students...
American Graffiti is not a profound film, but it's especially well-done and a lot of fun. It is a memory, perhaps a memoir, of what one goes through on the way to adulthood. If you're one of the freshmen registering today, you're probably wondering if you should ever have come. American Graffiti will comfort you with the knowledge that you are no different than anyone else...