Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...path to the supreme fictions of art. Of the pleasures cameras give us, the transfiguration of plain reality is the most indispensable. It implies that the world is more than it seems--which, after all, it may well be. It's a paradox too lovely to ignore and too profound to solve. These are six great photographers who have pointed the way into its deepest parts...
Perhaps no one employed this strategy with more profound results than the incomparable Billie Holiday, who paved the way for an entire generation of black women vocal stylists, including Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald and R.-and-B. singers like Aretha Franklin. Although Holiday, who counted Bessie Smith among her most important musical influences, was not a blues singer per se, her music was deeply rooted in the blues tradition. As a jazz musician working primarily with the idiom of white popular song, Holiday used the blues tradition to inject suggestions of perspectives more complicated than those the lyrics themselves contained...
...influence on the academic field of operations management and on industrial practice has been profound," said Professor Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Jaikumar's doctoral adviser...
...recent interview, the venerable Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59 said he sees in current students the same profound sense of privilege present in the generation who came to Harvard after the Second World War. It was a time when Harvard became far more competitive than it had ever been--nationwide recruiting and the G.I. Bill ensured that--and students were far more serious and respectful than they were before or after...
...that changed, Fox said. Students came to feel there were profound problems with Harvard and with the world, and that it was incumbent upon them to change things. Over the decades, this feeling has waned, and, in an era when Harvard admissions are again more competitive than ever before, many have again become willing--grateful--to accept whatever Harvard has to offer...