Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word about psychology may help to make Radcliffe's frustrated longing for things that cannot be a little less hard to bear. The word "complex" is bandied about the critique in astonishing fashion, but it proves a most unfortunate point. Complexes are only to be feared when they are repressed and the healthy airing of these matters is always to be encouraged. It is the people who never speak of so-and-so that probably have so-and-so working in their sub-conscious to a disgraceful extent...
Knut Hamsun, as everyone knows, won the Nobel Prize for 1920 with his novel The Growth of the Soil. Peder Johannesen, farmer of Krakmo, Norway, never won any prizes. He was simply an ingenious and diligent hayseed who installed turbines and other complex apparatus by himself, who inspired a great novelist with the dignity of certain agricultural artisans. Novelist Hamsun derived Isak, the hero of his prize novel, from Peder. Peder died last week...
...American undergraduate is supposed to suffer, on occasions, from nearly every ailment in the oldest or newest medical catalogue. The symptoms are so often of a very complex nature that it is almost traditional to find reformers and nostrum dispensers digging far more deeply than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most...
...complex dicker between southern newspaper publishers was dismissed last week. Hands were shaken all around. The Atlanta Constitution remained in the hands of the Clark Howell family...
...Complex, the structure of the Swedish monopoly does not baffle knowing Swedes. At the centre of this network, holding...