Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just what he's trying to do, I don't know. His compositions and orchestrations become more and more complex, and he is turning to the so called modern school of composition, retaining, at the same time, much of the flavor and even some of the form of jazz. The result is a unique hybrid, which nonetheless comes too close to Gershwin, Grofo, and Morton Could to suit me. I want my Ellington and I want it straight...
...Complex Wave. Craig said he had eliminated the scanning problem by means of a new device which would make it possible to record all 240,000 divisions of an image simultaneously instead of in sequence. His device consists of 240,000 electronic "pickup loops," each designed to record one division of the image. The result, he said, would be a complex wave of 240,000 elements, which could be broadcast with little power on a narrow wave band and would be unscrambled by a scanning device in the receiver. Though none of Craig's audience wholly understood his proposals...
...bureau workers, wives driven crazy while waiting for their husbands to come home from bars, lonely Government girls and maladjusted clerks: Government and private agencies now provide opportunities for psychiatric consultation. "Of course," says Dr. Overholser. "psychiatrists can't go about asking every lonely Government girl how her complex is today." But Government employes have learned to consult psychiatrists before everything turns black. "A girl who can't find a satisfactory place to live or who can't find a date is now advised before she reaches the poison-taking stage...
Effect on girls all over the nation has not been calculated, but most sociologists, who feel that the Sinatra complex is a phase of a mass-loneliness cycle caused by the war, would say that this will strengthen the whole thing: if the U. S. Army won't mother him, the girls will probably want to comfort him about the whole thing: he feels terrible about it. It appears that he had been boasting to his friends about how he was going to make the grade and become a private...
...rewards (for the head of Guerrilla Chief Mikhail Romashkin: 15,000 rubles, a house, 32 acres of land, two cows, a horse). But the hour came when the Wehrmacht's mouthpiece, Lieut. General Kurt Diettmar, had to make an admission: "The struggle with the partisans has become a complex problem, which cannot be solved by small means...