Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward daybreak in the hot, hushed land, the young woman lay in labor. "Now the light came in from the East, bringing a deep stillness so profound and so pervasive that it seemed as if the earth itself were listening." In that mystical moment, her son was born. Looking into his eyes, the mother saw at once "not only the quick intelligence and fearless spirit that animated her husband's flashing eyes, but also the deep purposefulness and true nobility that had shown in her father's steady brown eyes...
...about U.S. involvement in a killing war. But the few who openly attack their country's position with demonstrations and draft-card burnings create a worldwide distortion of the U.S. mood. French radio coverage of the uproar, at least at first, made the U.S. seem split by a profound division of opinion. English demonstrators broke out signs that said WE WANT JOHNSON CRUCIFIED. From his sickbed, President Johnson expressed "surprise that any one citizen would feel toward his country in a way that is not consistent with national interest." Hsinhua, the Chinese news agency, took deep comfort...
...Constitution forbids religious test oaths for any public official And in 1961 the Supreme Court upheld a Maryland notary public who challenged a state law requiring him to declare "belief in the existence of God." Until last week, though, none of this had seemed to make a profound impression on Maryland...
...magnetic self-contained drama of birth excites everyone, partly because it is man's eternal second chance. Paradoxically, it seems to affirm what it is destined to refute, as one generation's wisdom inevitably becomes the next generation's folly. Without being overly profound or unduly grave, William Goodhart has planted this insight in the spine of his first play. In a rock-solid performance, Henry Fonda not only gives body to a role, but also substance...
Embalmed Stage Sets. For the newer California artists the words object, assemblage and crazy seem quite fitting. According to Los Angeles County Museum Curator of Modern Art Maurice Tuchman, their emphasis on detail, however offbeat, is "a profound reaction against California as a land of lotus eaters, neon lighting and drugstore starlets." Their attainment of maturity is not at all guaranteed, but they have made craftsmanship, if not neatness of execution, a competitive goal. "They are always looking over each other's welding seams," says Hopps. "They will applaud a Paul Harris (see opposite) but criticize his stitches...