Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people of Israel, like the old, are quite prepared to face a hostile world all by themselves. One factor that unites the generations is a profound conviction-to some, perhaps, a substitute for religious faith-that their nation will survive, no matter what. Survival is the Jewish sacrament. Even the secular-minded are compelled to regard Jewish survival through millenniums of repeated exodus and holocaust as one of history's miracles. Israel is that miracle's latest and perhaps most remarkable incarnation...
Nonetheless, Kalkilya's residents have undergone profound social, economic and psychological changes since 1967. Although Israeli rule has been relatively unobtrusive, the grenade-proof headquarters of the military governor and his platoon of soldiers serves as an irritating reminder that Kalkilyans do not control their own destiny...
...information that is new, its tenor is further evidence to the fact that inspiring thinkers do not necessarily conduct inspirational private lives. Salome also emerges to her disadvantage: While she expresses herself well, and with considerably more poetry than her more prosaically-minded master, she remains more ladylike than profound. That she was a true lady, and a very gifted one at that, there can be no doubt. But from her performance in this correspondence, the temptation to explore her other dimensions is resistable, albeit any one versus Freud is not a fair match...
...kind of knowledge needed by blacks is more than the mesmerizing rhetoric and the myopic prognosis of the para-intellectuals and self-acclaimed theoreticians of the past decade. We can no longer afford to transform profound political theorists--from Karl Marx to W.E.B. Du Bois to Frantz Fanon--into mythical characters, while turning their complex theories into catechistic blueprints for passionate action. Blacks need the kind of knowledge that flows from the subtle rationality of seriously committed intellectuals who have the enhancement of blacks foremost on their minds. We need the type of theoretical analysis that bases itself...
Ervin is not going to stand for that kind of evasion. For him, the Watergate investigation is a matter not just of high politics or powerful personalities but also of the most profound constitutional principles. In a far different context (a criminal case in which Ervin as a state supreme court justice argued to free a convicted man), he stated his first concern. "What may be the ultimate fate of the prisoner is of relatively minor importance in the sum of things," he wrote. "His role on life's stage, like ours, soon ends. But what happens...