Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enactment of the development plan -which makes it appear less and less likely that Israel will ever voluntarily surrender any part of the occupied territories-has profound international implications. In fact, the Secretariat vote was not inspired by any spirit of nose-thumbing defiance toward the U.N. or the Arab world, but by Labor Party fears about the outcome of next month's general election. Although Labor has ruled throughout Israel's 25-year history, it has never commanded an absolute majority in the 120-member Knesset (Parliament). The charismatic Dayan, who is somewhat more popular with...
...although Kissinger's accession to power in the State Department is a formalization of his key role in Nixon's Administration, it can hardly help bringing profound changes in the conduct of American foreign policy. In the White House, as the President's personal adviser on national security affairs, Kissinger could concentrate on certain specific problems; as Secretary of State he must confront the whole world. The secret negotiations in Communist capitals have left America's traditional allies in a state of unease; the old ties need to be reconstructed. The "Year of Europe," which Kissinger...
...Back in the age of reason, Thomas Jefferson wrote this clear and direct sentence: "The whole of government consists in the art of being honest." With all its simplicity, that statement expressed a profound conviction that truth could be a powerful tool of statesmanship. But in the world of today this seems to be a minority view...
...lines and increased literacy and public curiosity. In addition, Darwinism had cut deeply into faith, adding to normal end-of-the-century malaise a vague sense of guilt and anxiety. One result of all that was a widespread hunger for tales of horror and apocalypse. Wells, who had a profound distrust of perfectibility through industrial progress, fed this hunger with his best-known and still widely read novels: The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. They were all written between 1895 and 1897. In an argument that is echoed today...
...autobiography of a septuagenarian astrologer who occasionally was summoned to deliver prophecies. He is a man of such solemnity about his craft that he is capable of writing a sequence of sentences like this: "Not long afterward the Nazis were to take over completely. These circumstances had a profound effect on my astrological practice...