Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prior to the year 1898 life in Oklahoma was not complex for Jackson Barnett, a Creek Indian. He could neither read nor write, but he easily satisfied his humble needs by laboring occasionally for 50c a day. In 1898 the U. S. Government allotted to him 160 acres of land. That was good, he thought?a place all his own for his shack?plenty of space for roaming?maybe there was a little easy money in the land, in spite of its rocks and sterile soil...
...Stillman's reactions to publicity were more complex. She had encountered publicity before, and publicity is so puzzling. You never give it a thought until it confronts you. Then, if you avoid it, you feel as though you were running away from something. But if you fall in with all its demands, you feel vulgar. The only decent way out seems to be to try to make the public view of your private affairs an accurate one. You examine your real feelings and come right out with them. Mrs. Stillman, while supervising the transformation of the colonial mansion into...
...GOLDEN COMPLEX?Lee Wilson Dodd?John Day ($1.75). Ably if without great acumen Author Dodd proposes the inferiority complex as an answer to the questions, "Why was Byron a poet?" "Why was Cain a murderer?" "Why was Francis of Assisi a saint?" Reminds Author Dodd: "Let me remind you of the former Kaiser's withered arm?the most dangerous deformity ever visited upon European civilization. 'They shall feel,' said Wilhelm to himself, 'that I am not a weakling!' Let me remind you of the late Theodore Roosevelt's rickety body...
...their own personal problems. Nevertheless students who have genuinely constructive opinions concerning their courses and who possess Platonic idealism which allows them to look upon the turmoil with some idea of objectivity, should not hesitate to proffer their views. Every undergraduate is, unfortunately, troubled with a certain inferiority complex in the question of pedagogy--pedagogy both theoretical and practical. In the matter under discussion, however, which tests every innovation instituted in the College in the last twenty years and which will constitute particularly a criterion as to the benefits of the much discussed tutorial system, every possible means of gathering...
...month in the Rotarian, Rotary has "turned the corner." From a little lunch group brought together by a lonely Chicago lawyer, it has become a huge organization "covering 40-odd separate nations and claiming approximately 130,000 members!" It is outgrowing what Rotarian William Allen White calls its "boy complex," its "garish ex-ternals," its "supersentimentalism and noisy infanticism." It is not unembarrassed by members who say Jesus was the original Rotarian and even bridles when admirers say "there must have been something divine in the origin of Rotary." Its statements are dignified nowadays and Rotarians will smile indulgently...