Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind can contemplate, apart from the being and presence of God, is the stupendous movement that has been continued for countless ages, from energy to atom, from atom to molecule, from molecule to the masses of matter that form the physical universe-from matter to life, from simple to complex forms, through vegetable to animal, from beast to man, from savage to barbarian, from barbarism to civilization...
Three Vanderphants go back to Belgium but the household is amplified by a Captain Negodyaev and family and woes. Uncle Lucy comes with his family and woes. Every one has a woe. Negodyaev's is a persecution complex; about monthly he rouses his family in the night, bundles them up, poises for flight, then goes back to bed. Lucy's woe is his lost estates; he finally hangs himself, arrayed in Aunt Teresa's silk underwear, stockings and boudoir cap. Georges' is the stink that Beastly makes shaving; Beastly has a tender skin...
...fight with their faces to the enemy-who are the victors-and those who fight with their tails to the enemy -who are the vanquished. From time immemorial, the victors have laughed at the vanquished; and so the desire to avoid the imputation of cowardice is a primitive complex. Every man resents...
...past. Exasperated crowds lined the streets through which she drove. When she sang at the opera house, a police cordon was considered necessary to keep her from violence. She was Madame Maria Jeritza who, though born in Brünn, early showed that she had no Czech complex by wedding...
...often worse, to think wrong with the majority as to be in the wrong alone. If truth were so easy to ascertain that all honest-minded people instinctively thought alike the duty to think aright would involve too little effort to need an exhortation. Life is so complex in its personal, social, public and international relations, it has so many facets, refracts the light in so many different ways, that it is very difficult to see aright, or to take into account in due proportion all the manifold elements it contains...