Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past four years, I have drawn for many student publications, but I value my work at The Crimson the most. My goal to make my opinion count has found its fullest realization here. Striving to engage in a constructive public dialogue and to contribute to a more profound comprehension of the issues, I have learned, through trial and error, how to better encourage self-reflection, critique the status quo and offer solutions to communal problems. In a nation that takes pride in not fearing self-criticism, I feel it is my responsibility to criticize, especially in the stifling midst...
...more general claim that TV has, on balance, done more harm than good for society cannot be dismissed so easily. Television has caused profound changes in the way we think, learn and socialize...
...pension funds, insurance companies, money-management firms -- own about 58% of ITT stock and a majority of the shares in dozens of other major U.S. corporations. For decades they have almost always voted for management. If these giants turn activist -- and they are starting to -- they will throw a profound scare into executives and directors, potentially revolutionizing their world...
...like a comic-strip balloon, a '30s car, a nude or an outline drawing of a chair. These can be repeated from picture to picture, thus giving the impression that such images are obsessive, a la Jasper Johns. This will lend an expectation of profundity to the series. Why profound? Because Salle, as everyone now knows, has discovered important metaphors of the meaningless overload of images in contemporary life. Thus his pictures enable critics to kvetch soulfully about the dissociation of signs and meanings, and to praise what all good little deconstructors would call their "refusal of authoritarian closure," meaning...
...Williams fails to fuse these individual performances into a strong vision of Othello--indeed, she fails to display any profound vision at all. It is unfortunate that such a vital and ever-timely script must, like Othello himself, be smote thus...