Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed miserably. Circus people became either ridiculous or dull under the pens of fascinated, but insensitive authors. "Gus the Great" is no unhappy commentary by someone outside the realm. Mr. Duncan treats his subject with great dignity and honest realism and fails only through his inability to unite the complex threads of his story...
...book. Mr. Duncan understands the people in his novel; he allows each the perspective of a lifetime and successfully defines the mixture of lunacy and showmanship that makes a trooper. A keen-witted horse trader from Vermont, a bewildered pair of acrobats, and a lion tamer with a complex for abusing both cats and women are all drawn with infinite shading and welded together through the common denominator of their business...
...Planes. The problems of the industry were complex and many. The $500 million authorized by an economy-minded Congress for development of all types of military planes, including guided missiles, was not enough to keep all the major companies going on a big enough volume to hold their production teams together. Modern aircraft, said Eastern Air Lines' Eddie Rickenbacker, had become so complex that the cost of developing experimental commercial types was now prohibitive, without Government aid. The Government, he thought, should pay most of the cost for the development of new transports. (Douglas Aircraft estimated that the cost...
...assembled impressive scientific and mathematical data to demonstrate that life could not have been the result of a chance combination of elements. Life, he said, must have been created for some long-range purpose. This purposiveness Scientist du Noüy called "telefinality." Mankind-the highest and most complex life-form of all-must, he believed, go on developing in the direction of spirituality, as exemplified by Christ...
...attitude of student leaders present concerning political work at Harvard. There has been a marked tendency recently to "atomize" the progressive elements at the University into relatively small groups along what is often a rather abstruse line of division. It would have been quite simple to increase the already complex alphabetic conglomeration at the reception by creating a new political organization with more meetings for the already harassed progressive students to attend. Something much more reasonable was quite generally agreed upon, namely the importance of concentrating on issues and campaigns rather than organizational forms...