Word: profoundly
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Like another great craftsman, Alfred Hitchcock, Lucas prefers to present himself as a pure entertainer, perhaps fearing that references to more profound aspects of his work will put the public off. "Francis Coppola likes to think of film as art," he says. "I don't take it that seriously. Art is for someone to figure out 100 years from now." Spielberg agrees and disagrees. "We both see movies through youngsters' eyes," he says. "I don't make intellectual movies. George, however, is really an intellectual...
Chuck Hamlin is a can-do type of guy. He is frank in an age of guardedness, blunt in an age of equivocation. "My life is an open book," he says, and his chapters on Harvard range from silly to profound. But you must understand one thing about Chuck Hamlin: he is proud, proud to "have turned myself around," proud to have served his country, proud of his grades, and above all proud to have made...
...high school friend from New York to Alaska in an effort to get as far away from Cambridge as possible. I thought that by traveling a literal distance from Harvard. I might somehow gain a figurative perspective. I was wrong. There were no great revelations by the fire, no profound insights on the road...
This sensitivity, moreover, comes from a more profound realization about the nature of man--that is, I believe, the universality of sin. Yet--and this is the joy of it--he does not despair of this admittedly grim concept, but rather accepts it with an enthusiastic recklessness. He does not excuse himself from his human burden. His memoirs present several outwardly damning facts about the author. But he faces squarely such problems as occasional reliance on sleeping pills or psychiatrists because, after all, no one can be expected to lead a life of unrelieved virtue. Certainly, the faults...
...Viet Nam veterans have borne too much of the moral burden for a war that went all wrong. If there is a burden to be carried, it should be assigned to the men who conceived and directed the war; or, more broadly, it should be shared-in the most profound explorations of which they are capable-by all Americans, including those who went to Canada...