Word: complementation
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...Renaissance characteristics are balance and symmetry, which Romeo and Juliet has in superabundance. An early member of the canon and only the author's second attempt at tragedy, the play is at times literarily self-conscious and structurally too obvious in its symmetrical balance. Every idea has its complement: love vs. hate, day vs. night, patience vs. impetuosity, chastity vs. bawdry, and so on. Every character has its foil: Romeo and Mercutio, Juliet and Roasline, Benvolio and Tybalt, Friar Laurence and the Nurse. If it is not a supreme achievement, it is still a great play...
...loving eye" on the New York Trust Co. He knew that a minority of New York Trust shareholders wanted to sell out if they could get a good price. New York Trust's big wholesale banking business (specializing in large industrial accounts) and its seven offices would nicely complement his own 94-office bank doing a largely retail banking business with smaller clients. Last week Helm proposed a merger, swapping 1¾ shares of Chemical Corn stock for one share of New York Trust. Directors of the New York Trust accepted the offer...
...survey could be made on say 100 commuters and 100 residents, all of them post war graduates (because the world after the war is such a different world) I think it would be a valuable complement to your article. Gregory Smith, M.I.T...
Last spring a private donation enabled eight runners who made up the mile and two-mile relay teams to practice in the South during spring vacation, but this year's trip marks the first time that a full complement of track men has escaped the Cambridge weather...
...fireworks emanating from the Cannon section of the stands had their complement in the shoving, pushing, and elbowing on the floor. Princeton's captain Carl Belz, the top scorer in the Ivy League, even contributed a burst of profanity loud enough to be heard as far away as the Institute for Advanced Study. His pungent commentaries on the referees' decisions earned two technical fouls for the Tigers...