Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, many psychiatrists-along with large numbers of lay moralists -disagree with the idea that profound satisfaction cannot be had in monogamous marriage. "If a man has a wife and they have a mature relationship, what does he need another woman for?" asks Beverly Hills Psychiatrist Thomas Grubbs. Adds Manhattan Psychiatrist Max Levin: "The growing popularity of swinging is testimony to man's infinite capacity for self-delusion...
...creature of Cambridge and Georgetown who cherishes a never entirely convincing reputation as an international bon vivant and superstar. Yet together in their unique symbiosis?Nixon supplying power and will, Kissinger an intellectual framework and negotiating skills?they have been changing the shape of the world, accomplishing the most profound rearrangement of the earth's political powers since the beginning of the cold...
...Tromsø lies 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and its 40,000 inhabitants live two months of each year without seeing the sun. In this polar blackness or mørketiden* (murky time), the mentally unstable may slip over the edge into a temporary state of profound mental disturbance. Even those who are emotionally healthy the rest of the year may become unaccountably tense, restless, fearful and preoccupied with thoughts of death and suicide...
...heartfelt words, Apollo 17's commander, Gene Cernan, stepped from the surface of the moon and clambered up the ladder of lunar module Challenger. Cernan's departure may not be remembered as long as Neil Armstrong's historic arrival three years ago. Nonetheless it was a profound and moving moment that was put in perspective by a presidential pronouncement: "This may be the last time in this century," said Richard Nixon, "that men will walk on the moon...
...seeking to convey this sense, Wills succeeds brilliantly. Wills's failing is a kind endemic to the journalist who think well and thinks a lot. Wills's style, like Norman Mailer's is that of the elastic bag. He can go from profound talk about the Vatican doctrine on birth control as "biological teleology passing through stoic reductionism" to a discussion of the nun who thinks that public relations slogans and graphics are this era's most important contribution to the arts. He throws together all sorts of ideas and facts, shakes them up, and up, and Voila! The problem...