Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Arab states. So skillful was his handling of the crisis of Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh that President Eisenhower gave him the State Department's Distinguished Service Award for "courage and leadership during a dangerously unsettled period, for wisdom and unfailing patience in the course of complex negotiations...
...inequality, injustice, economic persecution," put in two years as assistant literary editor of the Chicago Tribune (1931-33), flung herself into sportive sex situations, moved on to Germany with her scholarly, New Deal-minded father, excitedly tried to date Hitler but later thought that he had "an acute castration complex," visited and much preferred Russia as "a definitely going concern,'' came back to the U.S. to write books, e.g., Through Embassy Eyes and Sowing the Wind, and to champion F.D.R.: "Any party that is violently anti-New Deal falls into the category of pro-Fascist ideology...
...York's Motel on the Mountain, conceived by the gifted Japanese architect Junzo Yoshimura and largely executed by the energetic young architects Steinhardt & Thompson. Delicately poised on top of a mountain (which Yoshimura found similar to the settings of Japanese country inns), the motel is a complex of 14 buildings joined by covered walks. It has overhanging, many-levelled roofs, exposed beams, balconies and graceful stilts. Nearby are swimming pool, pond and a lake landscaped in Japanese style. Inside, the private rooms are furnished with an eye to simplicity; the public rooms are made flexible in size by sliding...
...Agreed not to change the criterion for membership in the World Council from simple belief in Jesus Christ to include more complex credos, e.g., the doctrine of the Holy Trinity...
...must not think, however, that this play is a piece of propaganda. It is not a pitting of black against white in which white finally triumphs. It is a complex study of grays. Almost every character undergoes a change of religious attitude during the play, but at the end we still see a pattern of grays. And this is as it should...