Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human condition, in a broader context, which is where in some ways the Loeb's production breaks down. Too often the minor asides fail to transcend their immediate surroundings. Their impact develops the situation's comedy, but it does no more than that. Recognizing the more convoluted and profound complications of a comedy without sacrificing its comic aspects, is not the task that George Hamlin sets for himself. But at least he does not sacrifice his play's comic potential. It makes a very pleasant entertainment...
Privatism. With the ending of the draft and the troop withdrawals, the radical movement waned. Yet for all its profligacy, it accomplished some profound changes in American life. By its theatrical domination of the press and TV, it helped turn a majority of Americans against the war. Probably its most enduring effect will be cultural rather than political?the development of alternative lifestyles, for example. Much of the political energy of the movement was subsumed by the McGovern campaign. But for many months now, with the ending of the draft, the old activism has been dead. In many, a sullen...
...surprised to see a brightly-colored, semi-profound epigram affixed to the wall next to the desk of Nixon press aide Maxine Paul. The epigram, lettered in the style of Sister Corrita, read: Do Not Cry Because The Sun Has Gone, For Your Tears Will Blind You To The Stars...
...centered consciousness tends more toward discrimination and classification of things: the intellect ultimately recognizes and latches onto the distinction between self and not-self, and denies the consciousness the direct understanding of the unity of things and people, often realized during a high. This direction of thought encourages a profound sense of isolation, pessimism, and despair--the logical result of the preceding tendencies...
...This is one of Shostakovich's most profound works. It is filled with optimism, affirmation of life, and trust in man's inexhaustible strength." So said Tikhon Khrennikov, head of the Soviet Composers Union, last January after the Moscow premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's Symphony...