Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just as determined. "If I do badly, at least on a computer game, I can hit the reset button if I'm doing badly," says Kyle O. Prioleau '89 of Eliot House. However he refuses to face the psychological implications of his actions: "I think I have a power complex--yeah, right...
Unlike other Harvard sports which require beginners to master skills and complex rules, the basics of foosball are easy to learn. "Anyone can walk up to the table and get the idea of the game in five minutes," Brown says, but, he adds, the best players spend a lot of time at the table...
...OEDIPUS complex. Dad's piling on perfectionist pressure, throwing temper tantrums--maybe smacking up Mom a bit. Monday Night Football's making him increasingly violent and you think maybe it's time for a family counselor. But before you start bitching, maybe you should ask yourself this basic question: how many families has Dad butchered...
...wild animals fetch back at least 2 million years. They represent, we imagine, the first order of creation, and they are vividly marked with God's eccentric genius of design: life poured into pure forms, life unmitigated by complexities of consciousness, language, ethics, treachery, revulsion, reason, religion, premeditation or free will. A wild animal does not contradict its own nature, does not thwart itself, as man endlessly does. A wild animal never plays for the other side. The wild animals are a holiday from deliberation. They are sheer life. To behold a bright being that lives without thought...
...boma -- a tall thorn-and-cedar enclosure, the feudal African fortress against lions and leopards -- to meet him. Joseph was smaller and more delicately boned than Moses. He had the fine, intelligent head of a Talmudic scholar, the visitor decided, an Ethiopian head, a fastidious head, given to complex distinctions. Joseph and the visitor set out in the evening light to walk across the hills to Moses' boma. Joseph wore a handsome red blanket hung over his shoulder like a toga and, oddly, a suede golf cap that suited him well. He was barefoot, his feet tough and thick...