Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call ourselves Christian. Yet we do have at least a tenuous hold upon a dimension of existence which is not touched in this Report . . . The modern naturalism which seeks to solve the problems of man's sexual life by treating him as an animal, only slightly more complex than other brutes, represents a therapy which implies a disease in our culture as grievous or more grievous than the sickness it pretends to cure...
...well the College has succeeded in this complex aim may best be measured by an evaluation of the individuals within it, an attempt to find out what Harvard has done for them and to them in the four long and significant years of their lives they have spent in Cambridge...
TIME'S correspondent wired: "Wallace has become a bitter, dour man with a developing persecution complex. He would like to succeed to the mantle of Roosevelt but he does not know how to meet the common man whom he champions. His manner repulses people, and he in turn gets more & more resentful. He is a bore. His speeches sometimes put people to sleep. He is completely humorless...
...terrible complex of Mexican women," said Diego, "is proved by the phenomenon that North American women, especially the most beautiful and well-formed, as soon as they reach Mexico and go to a semitropical climate, for example Cuernavaca, throw off their imported clothes and dress Mexicana . . . gaining 100% in their looks...
With so much dough riding the throw, Duvivier carefully hedged his bet. His script tore down Tolstoy's complex scaffolding of historico-religious theory, eliminated the subplots, preserved only the central study of a falling woman, with a few glimpses of the high society she fell from. This might have been sufficient if the film had also saved a suggestion of the dreadful glacier-creep of Tolstoy's characterization. Instead, the camera work is uniformly uninspired, and the psychological glacier dissolves into teary slush...