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Word: complexities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting chapter on "The Inferiority Complex in Art" Mr. Fry relates the modernist cult in the arts with the democratic spirit in politics. The lack of culture in the ruling mob he believes is one impetus to the success of modernistic art which panders to the naive mass of uncultured culture seekers. He believes that the phenomenon of this new art presents a problem for profound study by psychologists. "The deification of ugliness and obscenity, the urge for mutilation, deformation, muddy color and exaggeration, are all symptoms," he says, "of sadism, indicating a form of psychopathiasexualis...

Author: By J. H. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/5/1935 | See Source »

...sophisticated and emancipated paper you know damned well that to keep one's Judaism in the background is no evidence of an inferiority-complex, but a keen and necessary political move. For the world is filled with Naziistic persons like the editors of TIME, to whom Jew-baiting gives a sadistic afflatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...genetics is no older than the 20th Century, and it has been pursued mainly with laboratory animals-fruit flies, guinea pigs, mice, paramecia. It is not surprising that the average cattleman should never have heard of sex-linkage, crossing over, multiple allelomorphism, or know that inheritance is a complex mechanism controlled by genes, invisible unit carriers of hereditary characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Milk v. Magnificence | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Woven into the fabric of complex New York City is the scarlet thread of bastardy which Dr. Ruth Reed of Indiana University has been unraveling for three years. Last week she reached a point where she could tell the metropolis just what sort of women bear bastards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bastardy | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...Long '98, of New York City. Dr. John P. Bethel, Ph.D. '27, of Springfield, Mass., and Edward F. Oakes, A.M. '17, of Canajoharie, New York "engaged in writing literary and non-technical definitions, in revising the work of many special editors, and in adjusting and has monizing the complex material after the work of the office editors and special editors had been assembled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Harvard Graduates and Faculty Members Assist in Compiling Revised Second Edition of Webster Dictionary | 2/6/1935 | See Source »

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