Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Hand. Up till now, the British have held the high hand in the jackpot 'game. The principal players are a complex mixture of governments and private companies...
Nowadays, the Dollar Princess has been supplanted by a set of far more complex characters, chief among them Kitty Duval, the poetic prostitute in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life. Baffled Vienna listened to her megalophilic yearnings: "I like champagne, and . . . big houses with big porches, and big rooms with big windows, and big lawns, and big trees, and flowers . . . and big shepherd dogs sleeping in the shade." Wrote one critic: "What does he want, this Saroyan? If he did not live so far away, in San Francisco, I would go and ask him." But Viennese crowded...
...exorcise an inferiority complex, the Filipinos had put into their Constitution (in 1935) a provision that 60% of each corporate business must be owned by Filipinos. But in 1946 the U.S. Congress passed two bills, the Philippine Trade Act (Bell Act) and the Philippine Rehabilitation Act (Tydings War Damage Act). The first offered the Philippines concessions that the islands had to have, including free trade with the U.S. for eight years from 1946, 20 years of declining preferences. The second provided full payment of more than $620,000,000 in rehabilitation funds. In return, the Filipinos would have to grant...
Versilov, calm and complex, also represents the resilient man who, in an age of chaos, manages somehow not to be destroyed, protecting himself and his ideals of honor and love with a hotchpotch armory of friendly tolerance, extreme reserve, silence, outbursts of passion and generosity, unyielding pride and unexpected humbleness. Like Dostoevsky himself, Versilov desires to love God and his neighbor-and is suspicious of such desires ("Very proud people like to believe in God, especially those who despise other people. . . . They turn to God to avoid doing homage to man [because] to do homage...
...size with its myriads of local attitudes and problems made it clearly advisable to leave education to those able to adapt it to the needs at hand. Today, however, the problem is not quite so simple. As the Nation has grown, education on all levels has become a highly complex and expensive process with a need to fit specialization of instruction to masses of students...