Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...university broke another custom by letting "the pride of Virginia, Mr. George Catlett Marshall," speak at the convocation. He recalled wartime conferences with Britons. The idea of understanding lighted his words again, this time with warmth. "We almost invariably reached agreement no matter how complex the issue...
...nation that bases its entire political structure on a shifting and complex mass of minor parties, any coordinated government becomes a highly dubious proposition. France is the home of such small fry. Its National Assembly is composed of every political shade from rabid red to gouty blue. M. Schuman must compose these squabbling factions if he even dreams of a successful regime. His only real hope lies in the tremendous mandate of 412 votes to 184 awarded him by the Assembly...
Mourning Becomes Electra (produced on Broadway in 1931) was never a great play-let alone a great Greek play. But it is a play that hankers after greatness (and Greekness) like a schoolgirl with a crush on a bust of Aeschylus. By attempting to dramatize the Oedipus complex on a framework of Greek drama, O'Neill produced a travesty of Freudian thought and something like a parody of Greek tragedy...
Predictable Ruts. Significantly, the best of Spearhead's younger writers are turning away from technical experiments. In John Berryman's fine story, The Imaginary Jew, in Delmore Schwartz's poetic probing of the Oedipus complex ("the child must carry his fathers on his back"), and in Randall Jarrell's savage war poetry, verbal high jinks are replaced by untortured statement and controlled emotion...
...About Town is more than a complex piece of Clair irony. It is also a simple hymn to Paris. In the opening shot of the film, the camera kisses the cool, wet cobblestones of an alley. The screen is full of tender glances at rust-crusted sinks, at the lovelight in the eyes of streetlamps, at tired mustaches, at a street fiddler's tobacco-stained teeth, and at lovely women who (in a travesty of nostalgia) all look alike...