Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welfare of all citizens, including miners, said the Court, depends on the fact that they enjoy the rights of free men "under our system of government." That system must be maintained. "In our complex society, there is a great variety of limited loyalties, but the overriding loyalty of all is to our country and to the institutions under which a particular interest may be pursued...
Chinese drama (hsi chü), like 100-year-old eggs, has few enthusiasts in the U.S. Westerners have difficulty staying awake through its mute, complex formality and its endless haggling with a ritual whose whole meaning may depend on the number of folds in an actor's sleeve. But last week a Chinese company of 14 did pretty well on Broadway...
...troubles (he dates them from the wars of the Reformation), perhaps toward the end of them. He finds bleak comfort in the thought that as yet no universal state has been imposed despite Napoleon's attempt, and two attempts by the Germans. But from the vast design and complex achievement of A Study of History one hopeful meaning stands out: not materialist but psychic factors are the decisive forces of history. The action takes place within the amphitheater of the world and the flux of time; the real drama unfolds within the mind of man. It is determined...
...added that, "the Hebrew-Christian ethic, as it applies to the administrator, gives a high value to the individual." He concluded that out ethics have done very little to develop attitudes and behavior patterns to cope with our complex society...
...Said he: "I have come to the conclusion that the accusations against Lilienthal's character and patriotism are without proof and without foundation. I also have discovered that he is the only man in the U.S. who has_ever administered a project anywhere near as large and complex as that which he will be required to administer as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...