Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope, and fear to his 7,000 listeners, who were as yet unaware of the contents of his speech.. Even when his address was over many in the audience must still have been uncertain of their evaluation of this man whom one Harvard professor has called "the most profound social thinker in America," this man who has held high office and yet does not hesitate to criticize these with whom he shared power, this man who is proud to call himself "dangerous...
Described as "America's most precious lunatic" by ordinarily venomous critics, Perelman occupies his own peculiar niche among top-ranking humorists. His biting, savoury style, bolstered by an endless supply of weird adjectives, signals a rocking belly laugh among even the most profound readers. For this adulation Perelman depends upon a speedy change of pace in the sequence of stories, the ridiculous image, and a willingness to play the fool for the benefit of his audience...
...less profound level, Harvard will reflect the nationwide spurt of interest in social and sporting activities. Publications, literary and otherwise, should enjoy a banner year. The football team appears headed for one of its most successful seasons in several years, and the announcement of a new seating plan by the H.A.A. should increase the enjoyment of the spectators...
...spent most of his career writing his song lyrics and comedy routines. "A trial separation," the couple's business manager called it, "merely for a period of readjustment." Anyway, Comedian Kaye got a chic sendoff: smartchat Vogue appeared with an interpretive photograph of him, ringed with profound symbols (a piccolo, an umbrella, a plaster brain, a yoyo, a sand pail, a fiddle, a galosh, a pop bottle, a dead chicken, a milk bottle wearing...
...Lady. Excerpt: TIME'S cover story last week "narrates the trip of Doña Eva Perón to Spain with such bad taste, stupid style, lack of good behavior, so boorishly in sum that we find ourselves obliged as well-born people to declare our profound contempt, our nausea, not only at the useless falsehoods this narration contains but at its grossness, coarseness, its undissimulated irritation and its lack of respect for a lady, the wife of the chief of a state...