Word: profoundity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...announcing the decision Princeton president James Bower said that "fraternities and sororities are not just another student organization but have social objectives which can have profound effective [campus] social life...
Those graceful and profound words were delivered 20 years ago on a muggy June morning at American University. John Kennedy's Inaugural Address and Berlin speech are best known to the public. But when Ted Sorensen, J.F.K.'s chief wordsmith, is asked which Kennedy talk was the greatest, he says with no hesitation, "The American University speech...
...perhaps the most profound revelation of the twentieth century. But voiced by someone who's been there-and Goldman has, having written eleven produced screenplays and umpteen unproduced others--the pronouncement helps solidify the murky image we outsiders have of the land of tinsel. Goldman's new book, the autobiography/gossip/self-help Adventures in the Screen Trade comes at a strange point in his career. Although he's had a hand in some of the silver screen's finest fun-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Hot Rock, Marathon Man, for instance-his last critical and commercial hit. All the President...
...national priority, Governor James Hunt of North Carolina and Dr. David Hamburg, president of the Carnegie Corporation, assembled a blue-ribbon panel of 50 business, education and government leaders. Last week the coalition issued a report declaring that the present economic challenge from Japan and other countries is "more profound than Sputnik." The Federal Government, the group insists, must take the leadership to provide an educational system that meets the needs of our technological economy. Concludes the report: "The failure to attend to our educational system is the equivalent of unilateral disarmament...
...specific proposals Hart forwards some trigger the suspicion that he is proposing them simply he cause they are new, not because of any profound understanding or support for them. His prosecutions on Tax-Based Income Policies (TIP) to control inflation and consumption taxes--rather than income taxes to reform the tax code, are both brief. Neither sections acknowledges the administrative barriers which would seriously erode such programs' implementation not do they address the political problems which have led many politicians and economists to write both proposals...