Which makes his influence on the party every bit as profound, in its way, as Reagan's.
But that fellow with the notebook and the British accent is up to something perhaps a bit more profound: trying to locate "home" in a rootless age.
Sadly, it was allowed to wither, written off as a failed brand when it was meant to be a project every bit as profound as the development of New Labour.
The show presents Calder as a genre-defying modern master, who wields an influence today that's every bit as profound as that of his wily friend Marcel Duchamp (who coined the term "mobile" ).
And the government is looking to business to administer the WFTC, the stakeholder pension, and the repayment of student loans.This willingness to bypass Whitehall may, in time, lead to a revolution in the delivery of policy every bit as profound as that Mr Blair has brought about in policy-making.
"I think a team going through a season after a championship, even though you can verbalize it and give examples and talk about it historically what it was like, it's probably a little bit more profound when you actually experience it," Belichick said at the time.
That is not as much of a stretch as it may appear to be, since physicists have lately discovered that the flows, vibrations and avalanches of granular materials like grain and powder hint at natural laws every bit as profound -- and difficult to understand -- as the ones governing subatomic particles or superconductors.
Later Platonists naturally understood Parmenides as thus anticipating Plato, for Plato himself seems to have adopted a "Platonist" understanding of this thinker whose influence on his own philosophy was every bit as profound as that of Socrates and the Pythagoreans.
Jennifer's Body is similarly saying something quite a bit more profound than "high school is hell" (or "hell is a teenage girl," in the words of Needy), which is that there are no perfect victims.
The most important thing was always her value as a woman, her erotic life, and that now was punctured and debased; a career was a distasteful adjunct, to earn a living - so it was a profound bit of luck that led her to Andre Deutsch at a party.
