Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly, South Africa's white rulers, faced with parliamentary protest at home, threats of economic sanctions from abroad and a profound unrest kindled by one of the country's worst recessions in 50 years, seemed increasingly to be on the defensive. Yet, as ever, the more pressure exerted on the leadership, the deeper it dug in its heels, and the more it retreated into kragdadigheid, or a mailed-fist attitude. In an interview on ABC's Nightline program, Botha declared defiantly, "I am going to keep order in South Africa, and nobody is going to stop...
...interpret the Reagan Doctrine as merely a puffed-up rationale for Nicaraguan policy is like calling the Truman Doctrine a cover for a new Greek and Turkish policy. In both cases, the principles established have a much more profound implication...
...Germans are really strange people. With their profound thoughts and ideas, which they seek everywhere and project into everything, they make life harder for themselves than they should...
...pick up John Reed's enthusiastic description of Lenin in Ten Days That Shook the World: "Loved and revered as perhaps few leaders in history have been . . . a leader purely by virtue of intellect; colorless, humorless, uncompromising and detached, without picturesque idiosyncrasies--but with the power of explaining profound ideas in simple terms." Then, having read that, to pick up Vladimir Nabokov's autobiography, Speak, Memory, in which the author, having fled the Soviet revolution, discusses the "bestial terror that had been sanctioned by Lenin --the torture- house, the blood-bespattered wall." Reed saw what he wished to see, Nabokov...
...winners picked up their chips last week, there were judgments about what the Phillips drama meant not only to the oil business but to corporate America. To William Higgins, a Value Line oil stocks analyst, the fight for Phillips reflected profound changes in the U.S. economy. The raiders, he says, "are prying money loose for better investment. This has happened in every mature industry as long as there has been a stock market." To Icahn, the biggest winners were ordinary Americans, whose pensions are managed by the institutional investors who voted against the initial Phillips offer. That showed, he said...