Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guide the motiveless creature through the morasses or else fire him with a zeal which will send him off on the trail of self-education. Men like Henry Adams scoffed at the idea of self-education in the nineteenth century. No wonder that so many students in this complex age turn back in distress at the magnitude of the task set before them. To many experience alone means education. To these outside activities afford this experience...
...regimen. Liver, too, effectively matured them. Dr. Evans and his aides decided that both liver and lettuce contained some element the lack of which prevented physical maturity. They reduced that common element of lettuce and liver to a form that was relatively pure as a physical preparation but intricately complex as a chemical compound. They named it Vitamin F and guarded well their research. Immediately upon the public announcement last week, Dr. Evans took train for Manhattan, and a long awaited trip to Europe...
NOVEMBERNIGHT?Anonymous?Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). Like the sinister figure of a masked and hooded surgeon the anonymous author of November Night morbidly and efficiently slits the emotional substrata of complex characters. Denise, egocentric wife of a self-made man, is a neurotically dissatisfied Hedda Gabler. Denise's shadowy longings finally take form in a kind of worship of her own expectant motherhood, and crisis-inspired, she joins the Roman Church. She has a pet cocoon of a Hop Dog moth which she cherishes as a symbol of her belief in life in the chrysalis. When the Hop Dog emerges...
...When I was twelve years old . . . my stepfather hit me on the head with a paper-weight, . . . surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. I will sit here, afraid to leave until the last minute has ticked itself into obscurity, because an inferiority complex shall follow me all the days of my life Misery...
Culturally Ambassador Herrick is Franco-American. Patriotically he is straight U. S. As an upright lawyer and a banker of authentic vision, he is cream skimmed from the Western Reserve. Complex, he interests. Last week his many admirers, loyal, enthusiastic, dwelt again on the five major steps in his triumphantly surprising life...