Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cutler will speak to the Mathematical Society today in Conant Commons Room on Complex Conies it was announced yesterday by T. C. Smith Secretary...
...course there are many who scruple at the publicity complex so manifest in Mr. Mencken's case. Yet, for once, the gentleman for Baltimore is on the side of sanity and discretion. If Boston is to harbor Tartuffes, it is well to be aware of the fact here, that one may protect oneself against them. And since the Watch and Ward Society is firmly established it is evident that Mr. Mencken is waging justified, protective warfare. Ethics are not the most facilely adjusted elements in any urban administration. Yet an occasional acquaintance with them hurts no one. Ward bosses...
...present our unmanageable burden of knowledge seems to be leading us to a superficial, general knowledge or to increased specialization. While a certain amount of specialization is desirable and necessary in our complex civilization, it has certain important dangers. In the scientist and teacher it is almost sure to lead to such narrowness as that which has done more than anything else to kill interest in the clas- sics. And of even wider significance than this, intensive specialization destroys perspective and an ability to correlate the knowledge gained in the specialist's field with the other facts and phases...
Last week the fruits of the ensuing conversation resulted in a performance in which what has been called Lincoln's "noble humility" was played as though it were a cringing "inferiority complex." The cast, envisioned from the. reports of horrified U. S. spectators...
...complex civilization like ours, where the rewards of commercial success are very great, the primitive idea of tithes has become an anachronism and an absurdity, and no system of proportional giving can satisfy the demands of justice, where the income is often many times that of a prime minister or a president of a state...