Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present-day maze of quickly succeeding events and complex economic and political developments, the average undergraduate wanders about, eagerly seizing such bits of the news as have meaning for him, rejecting the rest. He has a vague feeling that when we "get back to normal times" he may be able to find out what it all means. The reason that he cannot grasp it now is, primarily, that he does not know where to find adequate accounts of current affairs, nor how to correlate his knowledge of them. In the second place he has not enough time. He usually reads...
...about the Oedipus complex. Or what is it called when the ingrowing bond is between mother and daughter? The Medea complex? Well, no matter--for, after all, the common, unread run of us can relish the new piece at the Little Theatre and, as its somewhat uncomfortable story develops, will wriggle and chuckle with many a spasm of recognition...