Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recommencing administration in the Gaza Strip, while the United Nations Emergency Force continues to patrol the border. Israeli ships have moved through the Aqaba Gulf and the Suez Canal soon may be reopened. Though peace-time operations seem about to be started the whole situation presents a complex of diplomatic problems whose particular solutions are interrelated and thus must be solved together...
Although the greatest part of his published work has been in the field of Roman art, the central concern of his life has been the complexity and meaning of Greek art. This study he feels can only be approached by an extremely mature scholar, and he is only now beginning a book in this field. The opposite of the caricature of the German scholar of minutiae, Professor von Blanckenhagen makes a great effort to expose the general terms and standards which the art of the period expresses--the "image of man" as he calls it--but he insists...
...about this rather enigmatic man is his ability to laugh at himself and at the world. With a combination of strictly disciplined yet imaginative logic and endearing generosity, interest and vitality, there are few of his students or colleagues who do not find him an enormously stimulating if somewhat complex person...
...curious melange of Hindu theology, "existential" philosophy, and Anne Morrow Lindburgh euphemy, Jiddu Krishnamurti offers a spiritual balm for the "issue confronting all of us." In his attempt to free the self from a changing and complex world-entanglement, Krishnamurti maintains the absolute necessity of tranquility and of the present as a base for realization...
These failures and faults not only hinder France's solution of her own vital internal problems, but prevent her from participating positively in the international complex. An example of inefficiency was the constant failure to establish a consistent and coherent policy for Indo-China, resulting in prolonged equivocations and indecision...