Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of Marchand's new paintings, indeed, looked almost like a game of cherchez la femme: his complex, leafy compositions half concealed an ever-recurring nude, as glossy and distorted as a figure on an Etruscan vase...
Working with some unusual accessories (including canary birds, guppies and nervous women), Inventor S. Young White is digging into a complex study called ultrasonics.* Last week, in Audio Engineering, Inventor White described one of his gadgets: a sound-maker no bigger than a milk bottle. The White siren can generate: 1) "silent" sounds powerful enough to set paper afire; 2) audible sounds so loud that they knock strong men (including Mr. White) silly for five minutes...
...Shock." As if he had not enough troubles of his own, the unwed father has to worry about what the mother thinks of him. If, for example, she has an Electra complex (abnormal crush on her own father), she may just act as if her child's father didn't exist. This is damaging to his pride. At the other extreme, if she is a shrewish sort, her vindictiveness against him may reach "vicious proportions...
...standpatter who has the greater insight into labor-management problems. Ever since Alexander Hamilton discovered that a character obtained in New Jersey offered certain advantages to the rising young magnate, the working rules of society have been shaped by business men. As industrial relationships became more complex and more impersonal, labor found that even though its greater productivity justified higher wages, shorter hours, and more consideration for workers as individuals, its demands were blocked by archaic social and legal structures, adapted to an era of elipper ships and water wheels...
...their antiquity and by their abundance of imagery. In all three cases, less text and more music would have produced works better equilibrated. Copland's is the least ambitious expressively of the three pieces. It is modest and thin of substance. Hindemith's is more pretentious and more complex but not a whit more expressive. Malipicro's is the richest of them, matches most nearly with music the grandeur of its verbal text. It might seem even more adequately Virgilian than it does if, orchestral instruments were to be substituted in the accompaniment for the pipe-organ, a graceless...