Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...typically Gallic politeness toward those whose day of conquest is generally considered past; but when the savant undertakes to award prizes to those writers who mention heroines of notably advanced ages, he may fairly be suspected of harboring somewhere in the depths of his soul a sour-grapes complex, Balzac, for example, receives the Prix d'Excellence for six heroines adored anywhere between forty and forty-seven, and for one beloved at fifty-five. Any author who has a candidate over thirty receives a Good Mark, but conspuez those arrant sentimentalists whose damsels begin counting their scalps at the unripe...
...America" Complex...
Company of an anti-American complex. And Metropolitan Business Man- ager Edward Ziegler was quick to recite the convenient story of Rosa Ponselle. As everyone knows, Ponselle was born in this country, discovered in a New Haven cabaret...
...this is not the reaction of a "sour-grapes" complex. It is no secret that the University Glee Club, and the University would have chosen rather to return with the trophy than to see the high standard which it set and alone maintained for such a long time, finally attained and even surpassed by other glee clubs. But after all, it is glory enough to have stimulated such keen and inspiriting competition. If the trophy and the first place are highly prized by the University Glee Club, it now has, in its turn, an additional incentive to try for greater...
...fiction is a bit difficult to categorize. Its entire freedom from the plot-and-story complex will puzzle a few, but its artistic handling will please more. Mr. Smart, for example, writes merely a series of biographical anecdotes and analyses which he labels a "Pilgrimage"; but his rich and nicely turned style leaves the reader with no desire for dramatic ingenuity. It seems to me that Mr. Smart might some time try his hand at actual rather than fictitious literary criticism with decided success; the Advocate could do very well with something of the sort. Mr. Edmonds, in his "Lilace...