Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...damage the low, thatch-and tile-roofed houses of the Japanese village of Saga, in the Honshu countryside 60 miles northwest of Kyoto. But in peaceful Saga (pop. 2,500), as everywhere in Japan, the defeat shook the complex structures of Shinto and Buddhism which had served most Japanese as religion...
Swiss Theologian Karl Barth has somewhat the same position in contemporary Protestant thinking that Einstein* has in science: Barth's complex system of thought is fully appreciated only by the highbrows, but, like Einstein's, his influence is wide and deep. When the Christian Century began a series of articles by theologians on "How My Mind Has Changed in the Past Decade," it led off with the contribution of 62-year-old Karl Barth...
Congratulations and thanks for the excellent portrayal of Alfred Korzybski and account of general semantics [TIME, Feb. 14]. It is a remarkable feat to give a clear account of a complex system and of a great (though often difficult) man,all in a page...
Girls Could Wait. Tony says he really took up shooting baskets to cure an inferiority complex. As a 12-year-old, he did fine at piano lessons but that didn't win him much prestige with his playmates; so he began practicing basketball shots at least an hour a day. Now the piano pays off too. At Yale, where many a student prides himself on his singing, he is a willing and able accompanist. He has already written a dozen songs (all unpublished as yet) which have such titles as I Want a Helicopter and Why Do You Make...
Postwar World. In Munich, Germany, zoo officials announced that the parrot which shrieks "Heil Hitler!" has been suffering from an inferiority complex since it was joined by one which screams "Buy American...