Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alas, such may not always be the case, as Samuel P. Huntington, Eaton Professor of Government, might tell us. Despite clear efforts by the South African government to implement Huntington's confident recommendations, somehow the real world has proved more complex than the academic theory suggested...
...BOOK gives credence to the major fears of Harper's upscale, overeducated readership. Namely, the military-industrial complex, pollution, cultural illiteracy, alienation and anomie are undermining America's pre-eminence and quality of life. The odd combination of Cassandra-like despair and Letterman-esque snidery at the folly of it all surely must be what accounts for the Index's following...
...joined the Post in 1986, Ignatius, 37, spent three years during the early 1980s as Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Among the many events he witnessed was the continuing demolition of civilized life in Lebanon by indigenous sects and fractious neighbors. Having reported parts of this complex and in many ways preposterous story, Ignatius has now set about lending these experiences the coherence of make-believe...
Nobody who saw them in the early '60s can forget the impact of Stella's first "minimalist" works, the black-stripe paintings, done when he was in his 20s and just out of Princeton. One is apt to think of abstract artists' careers beginning in complexity and ending in reduction with the wisdom of age, like Mondrian's. Stella, so far, has inverted this: he started out polemical and bare, but has complicated his art to the point of apoplexy. Episode II, in which our hero goes nuts in the tropics, battles with spotted fluorescent snakes but does find...
...sponsors can find the money for such a project, she said, residents will rent their apartments, using partial government subsidies. Eventually, they will move in permanently and run the complex as a cooperative...