Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Balkans of today," said Stevenson. "Any outside power seeking to manipulate its griefs and searchings and first fumbling efforts to stand alone risks bringing down on Africa and on the world the dread possibility of nuclear destruction." Stevenson then reminded the Russians of a law of history "more profound, more inescapable than the laws dreamed up by Marx and Lenin: war follows when new empires thrust into collapsing ruins of the old. So stay your ambitions. Think twice about your interventions. Do not sabotage the only institution which offers an alternative to imperialism...
...flippant dialectic: his play does not have characters, but rather attitudes, few actions of the body, but many intricate actions of the soul. This sort of mental horseplay does not necessarily doom a literary effort, but in Mr. Cole's case the tone is annoyingly didactic, the intention overly profound--and the results predictably dull...
...shoulder shrugging than alarm. Jânio's motives, the experts believe, are threefold: 1) a sincere desire to make Brazil more "independent" internationally, 2) the belief that to hold the allegiance of Brazil's left-wing voters he must make a show of "neutralism," 3) a profound suspicion that even in these days of "disinterested" foreign aid programs, the wheel that squeaks still gets the most grease. Almost certainly Jânio hopes that at least an incidental result of his diplomatic flirtation with Communist nations will be whopping increases in Kennedy's proposed...
Finally, Camus appears as a man in conscious conflict with himself, as a man of profound Christian instincts but a humanist by faith. In all his controversial and critical writing, he constantly appeals to the principles of a Christianity he repudiated. When Camus touches directly on this issue, vital to the whole pattern of his life, he becomes, for the first time, almost tongue-tied. In an address to Dominicans who had invited him to speak, he wonders aloud whether he is in danger of being a "lay pharisee" when he claims the right to ask Christians to be Christians...
Cardinal Spellman might be surprised to learn of strong resentment by members of his faith toward his profound support for church and state integration. The cardinal's church should bear responsibility for its self-created school problem...