Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support for a grade system as a potential deterrent to glib generalization is related to the third, and possibly most basic, obstacle to independent study in the present framework. This has nothing to do with Harvard, except in so far as Harvard helps produce it: the increasing complexity of knowledge. When administrators lament the fact that fewer students today are engaged in individual research than there were in the 1930's, one is tempted to remind them that things are more complex and fragmented now than they were then. While there may have been seven books on Moby Dick then...
...boxing on television, and he could shake with laughter watching an unsuspecting guest try to cut meat with a folding knife. The stories that clustered about him bore testimony to the fact that he was (in the words of a friend) at once naive and crafty, simple and complex, gracious and spiteful. When a rehearsal failed to meet his standards, he was capable of kicking over the music stand and storming offstage to rip scores from his studio bookshelves and upset furniture. He loved the players, and yet often regarded them as his enemies. "I want to kill them...
...basic causes of delinquency have been mentioned. The more immediate motivations for these crimes are varied and complex. Some are of a deep psychological nature. Others can be traced to immediate wants or boredom. Still others to meanness...
...Both receive more than 1,000 letters a week, and both discuss the more complex problems, especially religious, with outside advisers." And both consistently employ the astringent approach. Explains Ann: "When you sit down and cry with people, you don't help them. Some people have to be shook-and Ah shakes...
...come to conduct a broad national inquiry into the nature, performance and adequacy of our financial system." Thus, in his State of the Union message last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approved an increasingly debated project: a sweeping study of the nation's complex financial system-something along the lines of the Aldrich inquiries of 1908, which led to the formation of the Federal Reserve System...