Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governors, who ranks segregation of the races above all things, was ready to preside over the dissolution of the school system which Jefferson established. For a close study of the motives that led James Lindsay Almond to the point of ending what Thomas Jefferson started and the complex legal strategy he was using, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "The Gravest Crisis...
...play Shylock as to play Hamlet, and most of them have been tried. Max Adrian gave us an unsympathetic Shylock--bitter, gloating, sadistic. Adrian is constitutionally incapable of doing a slipshod job; and this was a notable performance. Morris Carnovsky's unsurpassable portrayal last summer was an extraordinarily complex one; and it was no reflection on Adrian if he could not match it. Adrian's Shylock was simpler and more straightforward, and wholly consistent. And he adopted a faster tempo than most actors, avoiding exaggeration and the temptation to make every word a crucial...
...work revolves around an extraordinarily fascinating and complex young woman named Virginia, who is tormented by "three white nightmares," all personified on stage. Virginia undergoes before our eyes a sort of psychoanalysis, though there is fortunately none of the professional mumbo-jumbo that normally accompanies such matters. She finally manages to exorcise the tormentors; thus the title of the play not only designates its physical locale but also symbolizes the catharsis of Virginia's crowded, confused mind...
Both sloops were designed by famed Yacht Architect Olin Stephens; both are 69 ft. 7 in. in overall length; both are sleek products of the complex 12-meter formula, which balances off such speed-governing factors as sail area, waterline length and mast height...
...revealed, is made of at least twelve different herbs and roots (his secret). The recipe came down to him through his grandfather and father, but is so complex that it took him seven years to learn to brew a proper cup. Dosage for any and all mental ills: one piping hot cup the first day, three daily with meals for the next three days. Upjohn tried it on a white mouse, which is trained to leap onto a wooden block at the sound of a bell to escape an electric shock. After ten minutes the mouse walked sedately...