Word: complicatedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To draw the Greeks and Turks into what would amount to a condominium, Macmillan invited each nation to send a representative to the island to work with the British Governor and the local Cypriot Council. He proposed that Cypriots be allowed to become Greek or Turkish citizens while retaining their...
Using a complicated mathematical method, Dr. Stuckert constructs a "genetic probability table" that shows the changing composition of the population since 1750. To do this he assumes that "the probability of persons classified as white mating with persons classified as Negro is one-twentieth of what would be expected if...
With these ghastly examples before him, Hero Hurst is naturally nervous when he goes out on his first date with a gentile girl and is only partly reassured to discover "how little difference there was between the" feel of a Jewish girl's thigh and that of a shickseh...
Greeted in Britain by the brassiest of literary fanfares, this volume by a minor English poet performs the complicated parlor trick of 1) confessing to a slew of sleazy sins, 2) confessing to be confessing "to worm my way into the graces ... of society," 3) confessing that all the confessing...
He excused his generation's apathy toward mass demonstration on the grounds that contemporary college students tend to see that complicated problems cannot be solved by parades and placards. Clymer concluded that it is too early to evaluate the worth of today's graduates, just as their parents' generation could...