Word: complement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film does have its silly moments. There is a man eager to see a newborn son who mutters a last message in a companion's arms. There is also a captive German officer who wistfully admits that he misses his frau and kinder. But despite a liberal complement of platitudes, The Four Days of Naples never really becomes embarrassing. And it does invent many lively and believable ways to thwart Germans--probably the critical test of a movie that never even presumes to squeeze clumsy lessons out of the bestiality...
...exquisite specimen of nineteenth century intellectual history. He wore a beard when beards were fashionable--an unfashionable capitulation for a Harvard man. And his massive work on psychology contains only one tiny paragraph on sexuality--an equally unfashionable oversight today. Sex leads to Vienna, however, and few writers complement each other as well as Freud and James...
...discrimination. The image of Jewish landlords violating state housing laws at the expense of Harlem tenants, to my mind, fits this cycle; so does Negro persecution and exploitation of Puerto Ricans and other Negroes. Advancing the cycle to grant the Negro middle class its exploitative prerogatives does not complement the civil rights movement...
...critic propagandist, really--calling for the revival of the classical literary norms and the scuttling of romanticism: only later did he embark on a career of agitation for a social and political order which, in the harmony of its parts, restraint of form and moral decorousness, would nicely complement the reborn ancien regime litteraire...
...augment last year's third-place club, Cincinnati will have the cream of San Diego's Pacific Coast champs, including third-sacker Tommy Harper (.333). What the Reds continue to lack is an outfielder to complement Frank Robinson and Vada Pinson, but they should be strong enough to sink the discombobulated Los Angeles Dodgers to fourth...