Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recognizing that sometimes we have to fight our biases is what makes the thinking liberal a better vessel for dealing with matters of politics and ideology than a Lat-type conservative who, for reasons of religion or tradition, believes that "the most profound questions" are beyond our understanding, so why go through the messy process of rational discourse anyway. (As the venerable Jack Handey once said, "I think that I am a really good listener. It's just that I always laugh really hard afterward...
...wasn't just the beauty of the sight but the contrast form what had gone before that struck me. Somehow, Widener seemed profound, and so different from the mindless hi-I'm-Jacques-from-Podunk freshman blather. I headed toward the Widener steps and began climbing; the buzz of freshmen melted away...
...profound and so deep a problem that he cannot change it alone. It requires the consensus of all the thinkers, the opinion formulators and the legislators. It will have to start in the home. You must have certain values respected. The schools can only supplement what the home does. We are worried about it ourselves. I don't know what is going to happen in 15 or 20 years. My grandchildren are different from my children, because they visit me and sing television ditties. They have been watching it. And no one is at home except the maid...
...team "thinking liberal" reflects a dangerous world view. It the idea that thinking, the splendor of cold-edged rationality, is all that matters in politics and in life. This is certainly not the case. The most profound questions lie beyond rationality. They will never be resolved, even by the deep thoughts jack Handy has to offer...
...than bad, Ahrens' lyrics are unremittingly awful. The tag line of "Everything Was Beautiful at the Ballet"-- whoops, I mean "Larger than Life"-- for example, is "Gee, he was bigger and better and larger than life." The by-the-numbers finale (called, of course, "My Favorite Year") includes the profound lyric "you could cross a bridge and not have it burn/someone leaving your life could also return...