Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this end, a thorough and complex system has been devised to guarantee that every graduate is fitted for his role as a leader of men. The first step involves a written report by each Cadet, rating the character of every other man in his Company. These reports, after careful scrutiny, are supplemented by the Tactical Officer in charge of the Company and sent on to the Commandant. Any unfortunate whose desirability seems to be in doubt as a result of these studies is then sent before the Brigade Aptitude Board, consisting of senior officers and a psychologist, who investigate...
...Massachusetts' Gardner Cox is known chiefly for pretty portraits. This time he sent in a painting entitled Cathedral, which appeared to represent a boulder seen through a pane of glass. Complex and painted in dull browns and greys, it was designed not so much to catch the eye as to hold...
...German people by the golden bedbugs of Wall Street." The accusations that whirled back & forth between the victors who had only recently tried Germans as war criminals induced a German humorist to crack: "It is almost enough to make one feel insecure in one's guilt complex...
...volumes of printed matter on the Pearl Harbor disaster of Dec. 7, 1941. For a crisp account of the event, its causes and consequences, laymen may put their trust in frosty Captain Morison, U.S.N.R. (on inactive duty). The Rising Sun in the Pacific is a clear record of a complex of failures...
Woven through this melodrama is the complex story of the psychiatrist himself, his professional work and private fevers. He is neither miracle man nor mad scientist, as Hollywood so often presents men of his trade. The audience can respect his talents while fearing for his fallibility. There is ham in him, and cold conceit, as he changes face and voice from one patient to the next. He mistreats his wife and dallies with a blonde (Christine Norden), unhappily wondering why he can't be as useful to himself as he is to some of his patients. In short...