Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcement from Albany was carefully phrased to conceal the Dewey-men's concern. Said Dewey: "The time has come for a frank and blunt statement of the complex and serious problems confronting our nation and the world. . . . The national Administration has failed in its duty of frank discussion. I propose to bring before the American people the facts as I see them and the solutions I believe necessary...
...complex modern society citizens need police to help them keep order; but in a healthy society the citizens, not the police, have the primary responsibility. A British M.P., Kenneth Pickthorn, expressed the principle in the 1930s, when a bill was placed before the House of Commons to give British policemen extraordinary powers in order to fight native fascists. "I think it was a governess, a butcher's boy and a curate," said Pickthorn, "who got in the way of a gunman after he committed a murder recently; and there was Mr. Fisk, the Battersea bricklayer, who seized a gunman...
...other two stories are also about childhood; they are more complex and less forceful that "The Bond," but they are both written with conviction, if with little prospect of being sold to Glamour Magazine. Norman Zierold's essays, "A Critique of Freud," tries to be witty, but without success. It is a parody of Freud, that shows only ignorance and a distasteful sense of humor. Aune Tolstol's poem, "A Penny for the Blind Man," is the only one in the magazine. It is a poem that seems uncontrived, yet the simplicity is finely formed, and the verses give...
...fool enough to collect them) fill a library: the metallurgical engineer's report, the traffic expert's report, the highway engineer's report, the psychiatrist's report, the oculist's report, etc.-and they would contradict each other. "All the facts" relevant to more complex events, such as the devaluation of the franc, are infinite; they can't be assembled and could not be understood if they were. The shortest or the longest news story is the result of selection. The selection is not, and cannot be, "scientific" or "objective." It is made...
...There are few kafferboeties, or white men who work for the welfare of the blacks. One of them is killed by a housebreaker, and to his terrible sorrow the old man learns that his son Absalom was the killer. . This situation allows the novelist to dramatize with irony a complex of interracial tensions in which there seems little but heartbreak for the just and disinterested. Although it is as much meditation as fiction in certain parts, and the meditation is not always as profound as it is impassioned, Cry, the Beloved Country has moments of distinction...