Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This great disparity has created a profound hostility between the low-income Negro and his more affluent, well-educated, middle-class brother. Demoralized, alienated and apathetic, the slum Negro is bitterly jealous of those he scornfully calls "white niggers." The middle-class Negro, on the other hand, is troubled by the riots and the chants of "black power," which he knows hurt his cause. The gulf between the two is widened by the fact that the better-off Negro tends to demonstrate too little concern for those he has left behind. Almost alone among all U.S. ethnic groups, Negroes have...
...jobs with the greatest prestige, those in colleges and high schools, leaving a growing grammar school gap. High school teachers tend to move up to junior colleges, which employ more than 65,000 as compared with 26,000 five years ago. Contending that elementary teachers have a far more profound influence on students than college teachers, James E. Russell, secretary of the N.E.A.'s Educational Policies Commission, charges that "the prestige hierarchy in education is inverted-and when we finally treat the elementary school as our first priority, we will have a true revolution in American education...
...Chemistry of Visions. Physicians have long suspected that even the visions of religious mystics were the result of some change in body chemistry brought on by self-hypnosis, pain, breath control, or intense hunger. Pahnke and Richards suggest that drug-induced mystical experiences may have a profound therapeutic effect on the subjects. Those who experience such releasing of their intuitive unconscious claim "increased personality integration, greater sensitivity to the authentic problems of other persons, responsible independence of social pressure." They sense "deeper purposes in life, lose their anxiety of death and guilt...
...spectator may not know it, he has begun to watch a deliberately minor masterpiece. Written, directed, photographed and produced for less than $100,000 by a 30-year-old TV producer named John Korty, Crazy Quilt is an almost perfect little film that says something both funny and profound about one of life's larger ironies: the painful and yet wonderful difference between what people seek in the world and what they find...
...Needham, Mass., where he himself first read Treasure Island. "He was also a man who felt deeply about the tragedy of life," says Son-in-Law Peter Hurd, pointing out that Blind Pew was modeled on a blind man Wyeth knew. Far from mere illustration, it is a profound study of an anguished soul...