Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White's well-timed, wild dialogues are suggestive of the better (not the best) comic strips. His Freudian overtones and contemporary analogies make the book "profound," in the publisher's opinion, as well as "funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with pratt falls; there is an affecting and terrible sequence, in somewhat doubtful taste, about a unicorn. The book as a whole might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate...
...Even then there was a worldwide feeling that a great revolution in human affairs was imminent; the phrase 'A war to end war' expressed that widely diffused feeling, and surely there could be no profounder break with human tradition and existing forms of government than that. But that revolution did not realize itself. The League of Nations, we can all admit now, was a poor and ineffective outcome of that revolutionary proposal to banish armed conflict from the world and inaugurate a new life for mankind. It was too conservative of existing things, halfhearted, diplomatic. And since...
...pastors have been mobilized, and 75 installed as chaplains. For French Protestantism, mobilization posed a problem: how to keep its churches running. M. Boegner solved it by recalling aged ministers from retirement, giving pulpit work to laymen and even to "some young ladies who have made profound studies in theology...
Eight weeks ago Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano spent three days with Führer Hitler and Herr von Ribbentrop, returned with news that plunged Mussolini into profound silence. Last week Count Ciano saw them both again. He also was going to talk "peace." But of this visit little notice was taken; Count Ciano stayed less than 24 hours, returned to Rome having discussed, according to authoritative sources...
Although this resurrection of the dying moments of the Dual Monarchy makes for vivid reading, one wishes that Miss Harding had elaborated on the wider significance of events which led directly to profound changes in the European map. In an almost offhand manner, the author brings up the question of the rights of national minorities, like the Croats and Ruthenians. With only superficial analysis, she baldly asserts that the principle of national self-determination cannot be realized in Central Europe. There must be at all times a Great Power to rule this heterogeneous mass of peoples who, if allowed...