Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expresses "profound gratitude" over the case-fire agreement, calls for the continued withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam, and urges an end to military actions in Laos and Cambodia...
...more rapidly in constructive directions. In some ways, this conclusion is disappointing. One longs to attack the problems of undergraduate education quickly and systematically by an eminent committee that will find some grand design to inspirit both students and faculty. Yet the limitations of the committee process seem sufficiently profound to suggest that such efforts will fall far short of realizing objectives of the sort I have enumerated here...
Following the essays on specific myths is a longer piece called "Myth Today," which sets forth a theory of mythology far more complex and profound than the ideas Barthes applies to specific cases. Here, he describes myth as a form of speech whose particular function is to distort psychological intentions into a form which makes them seem natural and universal. The target of Barthes's investigation is the bourgeois, who tries to escape from history into myths such as "the nation" or "the human condition"--mythical universals which actually correspond only to changing, human creations...
...Lyndon Johnson's burial. A little more than might be expected for the normal funeral in and around Johnson City, Texas, but no hint of frenzy. Death is a part of life there. The people always gather when one of their own dies, drawn together by the profound humanness that gives these tiny clusters the strength to cling, generation after generation, in the wash of the Great Plains...
Simon chose Winter Light to represent Bergman's religious trilogy from the early 60's. More than any of Bergman's other films, it has an austere, condensed visual strength that makes analysis of its imagery almost superfluous. Its depiction of religiosity is ambiguous, yet profound, and so Simon carefully explores possible conclusions to be drawn from the ending--where the pastor, whose faith has deserted him, begins the Vespers service before an audience consisting solely of his church's staff and his atheist former mistress...