Word: unprofound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best measure of our humanity, some thing to be treasured and explored rather than deplored. His way is simply to record in quick sketches each little absurdity his camera catches, give a rueful Gallic shrug and move briskly on. If such a thing is possible, he is profoundly unprofound. People, he says, are prisoners of their generally misinformed ideas about themselves and about what constitutes happiness. But there is a cheery Catch-22: in their waywardness people probably do themselves no more harm, and very possibly less, than if they knew better what they were doing...
...sanity, intact. With this job-orientation, when a critic makes it he'll become unadventurous, and rely on past successes--there's no reason why he shouldn't, except for pangs of conscience. It's no accident that when all the big-timers get together, they form something as unprofound as the National Society of Film Critics...
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