Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brave new field of Social Relations is a pretty complex one. Harvard set up its department three years ago, when anthropology, sociology, and psychology began to overlap at their edges. Similar departments are now turning up all over the country...
...with a Transit. For three years, good, grey Edwin Nourse, 66, a onetime vice president of Brookings Institution, had been chairman of Harry Truman's Council of Economic Advisers. The CEA had been set up to keep the President informed as to the complex economy's ups & downs and in-betweens. On the CEA with Nourse were ardent New Dealer Keyserling, 41, who helped Senator Robert Wagner write the Wagner Act, and John D. Clark, an economic and political anomaly who was onetime vice president and director of Standard Oil of Indiana...
Crooked Canyon. According to the Smith hypothesis, the South could not find peace; its guilt drove it to a collective persecution complex. "Beyond the mountains was the North: the Land of Dam-yankees, where live People Who Cause All of Our Trouble; and at the end of the North was Wall Street, that fabulous crooked canyon of evil winding endlessly through the Southern mind which is, like the dark race, secretly visited by those who talk loudest against...
Burdick wanted it understood that his criticisms had nothing to do with the way he had been treated at Oxford. "The anti-Americanism of Oxford is complex and subtle, [but] the sting [has been] taken out of it by the fact that it is fashionable to have an American friend. Perhaps it is for the same reason that the courts used to find the muscular slow-witted barbarian from Asia a curiosity and a comfort to have about. The role is somewhat uncertain, but it is interesting...
...Tito, as outlined above, admitting from the beginning that the move is political. Adherents to this view think in terms of immediate political prospects in Yugoslavia, and by extension bring into the picture both nearby Iron Curtain countries and Western European communists. Essentially they are trying to reduce the complex issue to a simple, individual case that can be solved upon consideration of a few elementary facts. Just as the people who believe he aid is non-political fail to see the political factor in the situation, the people who think in terms of the immediate politics of the case...