Word: complicatedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The assassination "plot," as both sides told it, was an old-fashioned Levantine conspiracy complicated by 20th century gadgetry. According to the Jordan account, a Jordanian sergeant was approached by the Egyptian and offered money to do a killing. The soldier loyally disclosed the plot to the chief of staff...
With the same enthusiasm that they had once devoted to demonstrating against the British, Burma's new bosses set about achieving U Nu's dream. They adopted a $1.6 billion economic development scheme, drew up ambitious plans for a steel mill, textile industry, housing developments and hundreds of...
Throughout, the deep, ringing speaking voice of Moses and the soaring tenor of Aaron were heard simultaneously. The orchestra played in a web of complicated polyphony, and the chorus sang in as many as twelve parts. Some found the rainbow shower of sound to their liking; others were puzzled and...
Only three days after the Conservative Party's upset victory in Canada last week (see THE HEMISPHERE) one of the country's biggest magazines, Maclean's (circ. 516,587). came out with an editorial postmortem on the election results. "The mysterious and complicated and precious and precarious...
Mondrian reduced painting to its barest bones in 1931 when he painted a canvas composed of only a white background with two black lines. He was moving toward more complicated designs when, with World War II inevitable, he went first to London, then in 1940 to New York, where he...