Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They said it couldn't be done. They said you could never make a movie out of The Sound and the Fury. Too complex. Too confusing. Whole thing takes place in some blithering idiot's mind. They said it could never be made into a movie...
...China's economic reassessment began last December when moonfaced Chairman Mao Tse-tung met with the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in the bustling Yangtze River industrial complex of Wuhan. Although party propagandists were still extolling the miracles of production that had been achieved during Red China's "great leap forward" in 1958, the harsh fact before Mao and his colleagues was that the great leap forward had actually brought China close to economic chaos. By concentrating the nation's economic resources on a series of "shock programs" -above all, the great campaign to produce...
Discusses "Valedictorian Complex...
...valedictorian complex," King suggested, is an example of another student problem--"ego identify." King claimed that the Freshman has to re-orient himself among students at least as capable as he, and in doing so is forced to re-evaluate his ideals and ambitions. Contact with members of differing social starta and intellectual ability, King said, also forces the Freshman to reconsider his "social acceptability...
...head in the clouds of the title; and his students stoop over so their brains can look for profundities while their arses master star-gazing. The playwright achieved a special mixture of satire, criticism, obscenity, invective, wit, fantasy, and lyricism-all within a set of conventions as rigid and complex as those of the 18th-century opera buffa...