Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps eventually one or another of our ambitious new psychiatric foundations--the Institute for Child Guidance, conceivably--will look into this and report that what ails the rebellious student (less at Harvard than at many other universities) resembles only too closely what ails the majority of us. That complex! Inferiority...
...material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur. The living combination of these is exceedingly complex. Best of chemists have been unable to decipher the protoplasmic interrelations. Could they do "so, they could make protoplasm in their laboratories...
...Harvard Legal Aid is one of many similar bureaus established in all the large cities throughout the country. Due to the complexity of the law in this complex present-day society, and the recognized power of wealth in deciding litigations, many aliens and persons without the means to protect themselves have to yield unjustly their pounds of flesh. It is the primary purpose of the Bureau to assist such as these...
...most complex of all: We Demand the Supreme Punishment for Counter-Revolutionaries and the Order of Lenin (highest Soviet decoration) for the Ogpu! (secret police...
Taken all in all--if it must be taken--the situation is discouraging. Audacious, with his alphabetical system, was summarily tossed off as in ill-mannered diletante. But when scholars of a most advanced and complex science, after impaling human specimens for their study, induce, (it's largely a matter of induction, the scientific approach, no less), their findings cannot be gainsaid. The die is cast, Sophoclean fate has decreed, and the New England tetrology are distinct types, like...