Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ITEM ABOUT THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION of Jane Austen, I am said to be "miffed" at the public response to the thesis--supposedly bruited by me--that Austen might have been gay. In an essay on Austen in the London Review of Books, I discussed Austen's profound emotional bond with her sister, but I did not say that I thought she was homosexual in any self-conscious or active way or that she had sex with her sister. My remarks have been sensationalized by the British press, and I am afraid you have simply followed suit. TERRY CASTLE, Professor Department...
While Bagby said she didn't think the conference would have a profound influence on the upcoming presidential race because "It's too early for people to know who's going to be the front-runners," she described it as important because it exposed a politically disillusioned America to open discussion on issues that face the country...
...early June, members of the Class of 1960 voted to withhold its 35th Reunion gift to the University because of "profound concern over the status of women faculty at Harvard," according to Frances O. Zimmerman...
...mention the profound religious consequences of the scientific investigation of consciousness. If it turns out to be true that consciousness--the soul--is not a separate reality but a consequential phenomenon of the material world, then a fundamental truth of Christianity is shown not to be true. Because the concepts of heaven and hell and eternal life are based on the immateriality and indestructibility of the soul, the scientific demonstration of the material basis of consciousness would seem to mean the end of Christianity. PAUL B. MARSH Lansing, Michigan...
Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums James Cuno said in a statement, "It is with a profound sense of personal loss that we acknowledge the recent death of John Coolidge. John was more than a colleague to us. He was a generous, personal friend to students, faculty colleagues, and museum staff. His cheerful presence will be deeply missed...