Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prophet with a Gun" [Jan. 16] is a masterly handling of the most complex political problem of our times. Where hopes and fears, religion and politics, dreams and nightmares are so grievously mixed, any complete story is impossible. It may be too idealistic to ask for a solution through love, but, having long known Palestine, I feel that the present hatred endangers not only the small, struggling state of Israel but the world as well...
...justice and human welfare, so that all men will aspire to share that kind of peace. My views with respect to peace have been made known on many, many occasions, and there is no reason to think that they have altered because the article, like others dealing with complex subjects of foreign policy, inevitably tends to emphasize oversimplification and special emphasis...
...Communist military position is very different today from what it was in 1954. Then all authorities out here judged that the Reds were nowhere near capable of serious attack on Formosa or any part of the island complex. Now Communists have or very soon will have facilities, principally air bases and port establishments, from which they could mount a considerable attack. Their overall internal position and expressed attitude continue to suggest that they intend no such attack and would go to any conceivable length to avoid entanglement with the U.S. at this crucial point in their 'socialist transformation...
When a composition by Roger Sessions is played, it is a major event. Reason: his music is so imposing and complex that few orchestras dare to try it. But this season. Composer Sessions, 59, unveils four major new works in a row: 1) a cantata; 2) a Mass, to be performed at Kent School, Conn.; 3) a piano concerto, to be played at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music next month; 4) a symphony, his third, which the Boston Symphony Orchestra expects to play in March. The Louisville Orchestra, under Robert Whitney, premiered the cantata-really a solo aria...
...process of acquiring 5,000 acres of choice land between Dallas and Fort Worth for $10 million. Their plan: to turn the land into the world's biggest "industrial park," a roaring "prairie boom town" where 100,000 people would work in a $300 million complex of aircraft, electronics, food-processing and packaging plants, with an annual payroll of $500 million. The details and timing were still undecided, said Zeckendorf grandly, but he and his backers had already plunked down $500,000 as down payment on half the land, hoped to start building this year...