Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specially soothing to the musical comedy complex are the following: Poppy, Ziegfeld Follies, Runnin' Wild, Kid Boots, Music Box Review, Mary Jane
...feel that this book, which you consider a degraded piece of work, is worthy of comparison with the finest confessions of the soul of all time. I feel it is about time for Jews to stop carrying chips on their shoulders. Through the ages they have preserved their inferiority complex.' As proof that I hold no animus against the Jew, I pointed out that I had just published a translation of Silbermann by Jacques de Lacretelle, a novel passionately defending...
...years Harvard has had all election complex. Either the lower classmen are submitted to the boredom of the perfunctory process of raising the necessary sixty per cent, or the Seniors are worked up to a nervous pitch in the effort to pay just and final honors to this or that candidate who has shown his worth throughout his college career. Indifference and over-emphasis are unhappy extremes, but luckily traditional indifference in the lower class elections can do no serious damage. If classes want to spend several days drumming up enough votes to elect nominal officers no real harm...
...refreshing; it offsets Mr. Bryan's inanities, or rather the ideas prompted by his inferiority complex, which will not be satisfied unless the Nazarene were a wonderful Messenger sent especially to save mankind. It is eminently a sans book--a book in which such a statement as this, for instance, may be found: "Religion has no quarrel with ascertained knowledge. To say that it has is to make God a liar--which many pietists are now attempting to do, in a strange and profoundly irreligious confidence that so they serve him to good purpose...
Instinctively the human mind craves universal laws, formulae, astoundingly simple solutions of complex problems. Onivin Page has a rather eloquent reply to this quest for a smooth path. He turns to Rx (pronounced Rex) for an explanation of the hitherto inexplicable in nature; "Rx, the most wonderful, abundant, and essential kind of matter known to man", and in a rambling treatise for the lay reader not only overthrows all existing theories of the constitution of matter and proves the Bible scientific, but explains Einstein...