Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself he would need tough and able men high in public confidence. A vengeful victor might have kicked out Jim Forrestal, who had not raised a finger in the campaign. But the man Truman had appointed as the nation's first Defense Secretary was deep in a complex military budget and other defense matters that must soon go to Congress. Last week, Washington heard that Truman had asked Forrestal to stay and would not let him go unless Forrestal insisted...
...Social Sciences aren't complex; only their terminology is confusing. The cards have been shuffled and there is a glimmer of hope that general principles will soon appear," he said...
Three Drinks & a Dream. At the root of Europe's misconceptions about the U.S. is what Visson calls the "Athenian complex." Europeans, he thinks, regard the U.S. somewhat as the Greeks regarded the rise of muscular, uncultured Rome. The Greeks told themselves (as Europeans do today) that these new barbarians across the water might have more money-but they would never be really civilized. European intellectuals have always claimed that those American nouveaux riches are uncouth. They have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world...
...misinterpretation of the early returns was a small part of a big problem that the A.P., brought up on strict factual reporting, still has to solve: how can it interpret complex news without losing its prized objectivity? Ex-A.P. man James B. ("Scotty") Reston, a topnotch interpretive reporter for the New York Times, and a guest speaker, let off a blast of steam on the subject: "I think [our] future depends on our developing adequate and intelligent means of explaining what is going on in the world. The news is getting more complicated every year...
...once, the word "efforts" applied. It had all come hard for Eliot. He had had to get all the way from the complex pretensions of his time...