Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crumbling of the eternal Sphinx is a catastrophe of would-wide concern. Should the attempt of the Egyptian government to repair the monster prove unavailing, the superiority complex of man must suffer. He will be forced to adroit that an alliance of vagrant winds and inanimate sand has defeated...
...instead of being patient he may have what psychologists call a "superiority complex." His schedule says he is due in class. The bell says, "Come!" -- "Damn schedule and bell and the whole infernal family of calendars and clocks!" And he cuts his class...
...know what I have been seeking. Harvard is so huge and widespread and complex that no Freshman can stand in one place, and with his eyes upon one spot, say "This is Harvard." And I greatly doubt if anyone else can. What I want to find is something eminently symbolic which in my mind will mean Harvard, prue and simple...
...Pictorial Review, the Century, Harper's and other magazines. His name became a familiar one in the columns of The Nation, The New Republic, The Masses, and The Liberator, where he wrote on sociological questions from the vantage of an educated man, an immigrant to one of the most complex and multicolored cities on earth?New York. The completeness with which he assimilated the flavors, forces and antecedents of his new surroundings testifies to his large capacity for social feeling. Besides The Marriage Guest, Author Bercovici has just published an autobiographical work, On New Shores...
...inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like John Selman, who resented any one else killing men in "his" town. Author White's complex is similar: let no one else tell the story of "his" El Paso. It is a reasonable demand and nothing tame rewards its granting. He averages about two corpses...