Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, the 10-year collaboration between Freud and Carl Gustav Jung broke off abruptly in 1914, with profound consequences for the discipline they helped create. There would henceforth be Freudians and Jungians, connected chiefly by mutual animosities. Why did a warm, fruitful cooperation end in an icy schism? In A Most Dangerous Method (Knopf; $30), John Kerr, a clinical psychologist who has seen new diaries, letters and journals, argues that the growing philosophical disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named...
...their anxiety. "I suspect that it may be a long time before we see improvement in the employment picture," says Stephen Roach, chief economist for the investment banking firm Morgan Stanley. In his opinion, and that of many other authorities, "the labor market is in the midst of a profound structural transition where we are really moving away from traditional sources of hiring." Into what? A not-very-brave new world in which, even after the recession is a faded memory, no one can be quite sure where the big surge of new jobs will come from...
Packwood cannot and must not sacrifice his diaries. His reflections, whether personal or profound, belong to him and him alone. This debate should not fester in the public arena any longer, for the leaders of this country certainly have better things to do. If Packwood decides to work through the federal court system to challenge the subpoena, lawyers say he could delay action for up to two years. Another two years of "Bob Packwood" headlines will not appeal to Americans searching for good and responsible government...
...nothing shameful, nothing harmful" anymore? This is the question Christopher Brown poses in his metapsychological defense of Professor Mansfield's recent indictment of homosexuality. It is an interesting question, indeed a profound one, both for conservatives and liberals alike. Are we, as a society, no longer capable of shame? Brown would have us believe that shame ought to be reserved for matters of sex. It is in this notion that he squanders the value of his liberal education...
...hard enough for a child to lose a parent. But when AIDS is the killer, the pain is all the more profound. Since most of the infected mothers are single parents, no father is around to fill the void. If the mother's drug use had caused her family to spurn her, relatives may be unwilling to care for her kids. Moreover, the stigma of AIDS causes many families to keep the cause of death quiet. The surviving children are isolated in their shame. "If they know, they usually don't tell anybody," Clymore notes. "Not their best friend...