Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, it is possible that no innocent student should wind his merry way to the Shubert unchaperoned these days. For there he will encounter nothing but various concoctions all labelled "naughty" and exploiting various and sundry degress of "it". The "Follies" have a butter-and-egg complex, and supplement everything risque with the 100 beautiful legs of the 50 glorious Greenwich models. While it is dernier cri in New York smartness, the closest glimpse one gets of the notorious Village is a night club whose snaky denizens seem to be suffering from the effects of the last rehearsals. Indeed...
...undergraduate is possibly less subject to the complex than are his elders: to him Friday usually means fish and the beginning of a weekend. But even he is likely to become uneasy on gazing at the current date-line. Even he cannot throw off the accumulated weight of ages: the most unlucky of days, coincidental with the most unlucky of numbers--one's callow self-confidence wavers...
...right in his contention that the best teacher is the scholar of widest knowledge and appreciation, but it is disconcerting to have the president of a university which stands foremost in graduate enrollment so deprecate specialization. For he based his plea for endowments upon the great service to complex civilization that university trained men are doing. And certainly it is not the dilettante, however interesting he may be, who is making possible the refinement of living, but the specialist impervious to every other interest who burrows until he unearth his treasure. His importance to society, his conception...
...true that if specialization is not modulated by the philosophy of business, or science, or whatever the field may be, the exponent may be a useless cog, or even dangerous as a theoretical bigot. This was the blight, in the form of a superiority complex, to which Dr. Butler ascribes the death of interest in the classics. No doubt a society of the widely informed, not soporific with erudition, would be the cultural utopia. But as long as civilization goes ploughing ahead in the present direction, moles seem indispensable as ground breakers. There is no reason for salvaging persons...
...Majesty & Her Majesty patriotically impersonated, last week, the roles of a stupid workman and workwoman trying to operate complex factory machinery on the good old British plan for "muddling through." Scene: the "Safety in Industry" room at the new Home Office Industrial Museum, London...