Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havana, Ernest Hemingway was interviewed by Prensa Libre, which at last revealed the subject of the novel Hemingway has been writing at the past six years. "It'll be about the earth, the air, and the sea." Added Prensa Libre: "Hemingway is a complex figure without precedent. Quite a few regard him as the reincarnation of Benvenuto Cellini...
...them close to their support level. Though grain prices, on an average, are still three times those of prewar, the Government is required to stabilize them at that high level by grain buying and loans to farmers. Moreover, as industrial prices rise the support level will rise too: the complex parity formula ties farm-support prices to industrial prices. In effect, the Government may soon be required to force up grain prices from their present levels...
...human love as a sweet, evanescent sickness that briefly drives its victim to feverish pitches of feeling and then leaves him sated and bored; his fascination with the workings of human memory, which he saw as a treacherous filter distorting the qualities and meanings of past experience; and his complex attitude to high society, which delighted his snobbishness and shocked his moral feelings...
...imports, Finance Minister Beteta did what some of Mexico's sister republics may have to do. Tighter controls would have invited abuse in a country in which political privilege is hard to control. It would have stimulated the already brisk smuggling trade and set up an even more complex bureaucracy than Mexico already has. And it would have created a black market in peso-dollar trading...
Much Hope. Nearly all the assembly's decisions were unanimous. Chairman and newly elected president was Yugoslavia's esteemed, bull-necked Andrija Stampar, rector of the University of Zagreb. He had, said one delegate, a "unanimity complex." He would make assembly procedure a personal issue: "If you have confidence in your chairman you will adopt this item"; or "I would be the most unhappy man in the world if the assembly rejected this proposal." WHO, Dr. Stampar thinks, should not set out to be a super health department for the world, but rather a clearinghouse for vital information...