Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief, Hart feels that at the core of the conservative tradition lies a profound respect for the dignity of the individual, that property rights are but a means to the end of dignity, and that the chief transgression of the omnipotent and boundlessly optimistic liberal Establishment is not its cavalier treatment of property but its unfeeling disregard for individual dignity...
...Viet Nam veteran in a letter home: "You can't run away from Viet Nam, because it will follow wherever you go." While President Johnson insists that the U.S. will remain there as long as Saigon's sovereignty is threatened, the war will inevitably confront him with profound problems at home...
...theme of his work, said Lowry, quoting Critic Edmund Wilson, was "the forces in man which cause him to be terrified of himself." The theme of his letters could be the well-grounded fears that man has of other men. They are witty, light, profound and erudite. The tone is that of an infinitely gentle man whose capacity for pity was not-as in the case of most drunks-squandered on himself...
...nineteenth century romantic, and the fourth--though written later--was largely in that style. Now it is good to have some sensationalism from the Romantic period, but all of the world's music was not written after 1850. At Christmas time, when there is so much really great and profound music from the baroque period that is especially appropriate, it is criminal that the whole program should come from one narrow period, especially when two of the four pieces are poor choices intrinsically...
Still, for years the College has tolerated student government of one kind or another. And student politicians have had to tolerate the profound disinterest aroused by their every utterance. One politico, Howie Phillips, found this too difficult. In 1960 he piloted the Harvard Student Council into the mainstream of Richard Nixon's presidential campaign, and the HSC promptly sank...