Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repeated expression of "deep appreciation" speaks of something other than ritual, it may indicate that A.C. has satisfied a profound need for self-renewal. One alumni officer may have explained this feeling when he remarked that alumni are held to be dull, boring, finished. By giving them for a short time the intellectual challenge they faced in undergraduate days, A.C. may have revived some self-esteem...
...movie, of course, ignores all this. And in doing so, it obfuscates the radical lesson of the seventies: that the women's problem is rooted in the most profound structures of the social order. The movie appeases the national trauma about women with a sophisticated sleight-of-hand. Not only does it couch its message in 19th century terms, but it refuses even to define Nora in relation to them. It thus disguises the problem and allays it by spreading a veneer of euphoria over it. The ending of the movie is an affirmation of individual female liberation that denies...
...poetry readings contain a profound resonance and make imagery tactile...
...Senator Baker asked pointed questions about three incidents in which Baker had dealt with the White House-and found Dean's version of the events precise and accurate. Whether he stands up equally well under the long ordeal of his televised testimony this week remains a question of profound significance to the whole course of the Watergate investigation-and to the political future of Richard Nixon...
SEPARATING the mystical bliss of Maharishi and the doctrines of the Baha'i is a profound difference in essence and teaching. Where the emphasis of the Transcendental Meditators is on inner peace, Harvard Baha'is try to unify men. The Baha'is have a set of holy scriptures offering explicit, but vaguely worded, prescriptions for political and economic glory on earth, unlike followers of the Maharishi. A further difference between the two sects is size: the Baha'i community at Harvard numbers only half a dozen...