Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vanity, Obstinacy, Suspicion." The contradictions of Gamal Abdel Nasser's primitive yet complex character have made him hard for the West to appraise and even harder to deal with. In the beginning, Westerners saw much to admire in this handsome, dedicated young soldier who drove out the gross and sybaritic King Farouk, and who vowed to clean out the corruption of the greedy pashas. He seemed the promise of an honorable Arab future: unlike decadent rulers, or their wealthy retainers, he seemed to want nothing for himself. He lived simply with his wife and five children. He said...
...oritas, the girls can begin having well-chaperoned dates. In a few years the boys will be sent to college in either Canada or England. "When they were children," said father Diligenti, "I had to make sure that they grew up as independent personalities, free from a quintuplet complex. Now that they are men and women, they must learn to fly on their own wings...
Davis. A onetime cow college, fattened since 1951 by the addition of a college of letters and science. Davis has a collection of bright young Ph.D.s, a small-town cohesiveness rare in the university complex, and 3,000 acres for 2.320 students...
...some playing cards, others reading newspapers-the Wall Street Journal, selected by Da Costa as perfect for 1912 typography and makeup. During the long weeks of rehearsals, the salesmen, backed by a full orchestra, chanted an intricate number called Rock Island, passing phrases from one to the other in complex antiphony. As they spoke, the rhythms changed, grew faster and faster in time to the clackety-clack of the train...
...impossible to talk about this play without giving away some information that should not be disclosed in advance. At any rate, the work revolves about an extraordinarily fascinating and complex young woman named Virginia, who feels that she is "an enormous zero in the dead center of nothing." She is tormented by "three white night-mares," all of whom are personified on stage; and might well have echoed Shakespeare's Macbeth: "O, full of scorpions is my mind...