Word: profoundly
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...Harvard choice was not based on any profound contribution by Walesa to education, science or world peace, but a reward for his role as so-called leader of Solidarity. Harvard does not seek to honor Walesa's unionism but-only his anticommunism and his dedication to the counterrevolutionary movement in Poland represented...
...status. Board members must weekly come to grips with the fact that it is their responsibility and their responsibility alone to determine whether or not students will be permitted to continue as a degree candidate in the College, whether or not changes in their circumstances which may have profound financial, emotional, or other consequences will be made, whether or not they will receive special help toward achieving educational objectives which may be supremely important to them, and so forth. Few undergraduates, in my experience, when informed of the nature of the Board's work, have wished to assume the responsibility...
Along with the frustration comes frequent disillusion; Hildesheimer does not balk at exploding romantic preconceptions. A famous reflective letter which Mozart wrote soon after his father Leopold's death--usually taken as evidence that the composer underwent profound emotional stress--is here traced directly to one of the era's popular books on philosophy; in addition, Hildesheimer observes. Mozart's first composition after the letter was "A Musical Joke." Hildesheimer also presents his own interpretation of Mozart's notorious tendency to indulge in "fecal comedy." The crude giggly figure of Mozart seen in Peter Sheffer's play "Amadeus...
According to Psychiatrist Resnick's clinical studies of 430 users, compulsive cokeheads tend to be professionally successful. Yet beneath a bouncy, worldly facade, says Resnick, the typical abuser is a certifiable narcissist who has "an undeveloped sense of identity and a profound despair," and "an inability to express ... intense rage toward one or both parents." Rob, 26, a Connecticut native who has sold various drugs for a decade, including cocaine, has his own, hard-boiled theory of addicts. "They're the same kind of people who don't have self-control in other parts of their life," he says...
...attention he has been getting. The phone rings: the MacNeil-Lehrer Report wants him on the air. "I'm saying the same corny stuff to everyone," he tells them. "I'm warning you I'm running dry. Don't ask me to say anything profound...