Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normal tactical situation, the only man who can give the final order to attack is the President of the U.S., who relays it to General Power, who relays it to his commands. In a catastrophe situation with the President out of action, the order can be given by a complex of top officials in Washington. And even beyond Fail Safe point and all the way to bomb-drop point, the war order can be reversed and the aircraft called home. Fail Safe, says Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is foolproof...
...clearly gain that the Harvard community is today a mixed society. It contains numerous groups with religious loyalties other than those which gave shape to Harvard's ceremonies of public worship.... Today as earlier, the Christian church within the complex society of contemporary Harvard has a duty while keeping its identity to try to honor the convictions of each member of the Harvard community...
...incident was characteristic. Alec Guinness is a public recluse in the grand theatrical tradition of Maude Adams, Greta Garbo and Paul Muni. And shut up in the passionate reserve is one of the most difficult, complex and enigmatic Englishmen who ever reached for the rouge. "A dark horse," says Sir Laurence Olivier, "a deep one." Director David (Kwai) Lean adds: "Alec is one of the most fantastically knotted-up men I know." And all agree with the actor who called him "the best-kept secret of modern times, a sort of one-man Tibet...
...audience to understand the essence of a situation, to realize what the character feels and is; and so he takes more trouble to hide what he feels than to reveal it. It is more than the usual British understatement; it is a highly developed art of camouflage and a complex grammar of indirect discourse. Actor Guinness is probably the greatest living master of the invisible gesture and the unspoken word...
...film deals with the street-singer's romance with a Rumanian refugee. This romance is too complex to be worth the telling, but its general line is Boy meets Girl, Boy pursues Girl, Boy gets Girl, Boy loses Girl. The Girl is nice to look at, the Boy is charming...