Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personified agreeably in Barbara Bel Geddes, who is convincingly charming and pure in her film debut. The thorn in the side of Fonda and Bel Geddes's true love, velvet-smooth Vincent Price, complicates the plot by trying to seduce the girl and torture Fonda with an induced inferiority complex. For you see, he is but a working man, who little understands the complicated nature of woman. It takes a while, but Fonda finally realizes that the ladies are as simple as he had thought, and that everyone loves...
...Pictorial, run both papers as long as they make fat profits (net for their last fiscal years: ?535,111). Now 64, he has run the Mirror since 1931, built it up from a circulation of only 800,000. As if this were not enough to compensate for an inferiority complex, self-made Mister Bart bought himself the biggest Rolls Royce in Fleet Street, still likes to burn up the road ("I've done 97"). He works an 8:30 to 5:30 day, rarely sees the Mirror until next morning. But sometimes he pops in late at night when...
...worst; in both first and third movements the orchestra fell apart, violins didn't play together and so on. And yet, the idea was there. Schubert is easy to play wrong; it can be slushy or dry or cute; to get the unique Schubert characteristic of Romantic Classicism and complex simplicity is difficult. But the orchestra, despite its momentary technical amnesia, got that blend perfectly...
...unlike writers, and unlike teachers, many civil service employees are in charge of business which must be carried out completely and unquestionably without any "wish to dissolve the Union." These are the men who handle or have access to secret diplomatic and military information in a world far more complex and explosive than Thomas Jefferson...
While "Across the Wide Missouri" is an excellent survey of a period vastly underrated in popular history, Mr. Devote's greatest contribution lies in his analysis of true pioneers. The mountain men, the visionary merchants doomed to failure, and the Indians were components of a complex society that influenced the formation of a "Continental mind." Hard, cunning, and loose-living, the mountain men develop as a strange breed with a passion to destroy the country they loved. They trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport...