Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complex pyramid of theology can be regarded from many angles, but the best way to approach it is through Tillich's own life. For his thought was molded by his time...
...firms that made abrasives, formed a holding company called Internacional de Màquinas e Abrasivos. He stepped off with appropriate fanfare: a caviar and steak luncheon and a trip to the humming factories in chauffeured Cadillacs for Rio's leading businessmen. Belle envisioned expansion into a sprawling complex of steel, paper and machine-tool plants...
...academics, of which any fool can find evidence by consulting the Sunday listings, began when human knowledge became so complex that the population was divided into two categories: the Expert and members of the general public. If the Expert's superior erudition fails to emerge during a program, we are told that we must blame its short duration--for there is seldom enough time. The general audience, blankly glazed before the home screen, is of course content to take the Expert's credentials as sufficient evidence that whatever he says is accurate. Whereas the humble citizen can express only opinions...
...Need for the new law has been intensified by speeding changes in U.S. food growing, marketing and eating habits: less and less food is grown at home or near the point of consumption; more and more is shipped great distances, takes longer to reach the table, goes through increasingly complex processing to make prefabricated dishes or whole dinners for supermarket dispensers. Simultaneously, chemical manufacturers have been synthesizing new substances whose long-range effects on the human body are not yet known...
...Oedipus complex about Alma Mater has long nourished English letters. From the days of Thomas Hughes (Tom Brown's Schooldays), almost the first things heard out of an English writer are usually the half-strangulated noises of one noosed in an old school tie. As an obsessive theme the Old School has no counterpart in U.S. fiction, unless it is the Home Town and the shouts of the boys who cry Wolfe...