Word: complementation
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...evolution and because Darwin gave no emphasis to mutations (sudden changes in the germ plasm). Biologist Huxley sides neither with those who would explain everything by natural selection, nor with extreme proponents of the mutation theory such as Thomas Hunt Morgan. In the Huxley view the two factors complement each other. But: "Natural selection, in fact, though like the mills of God in grinding slowly and grinding small, has few other attributes that a civilized religion would call divine. It is efficient in its way-at the price of extreme slowness and extreme cruelty. But it is blind and mechanical...
...writer of the generously promissory sort, he was taken seriously enough by the longhaired to be printed in Margaret Anderson's late Little Review. A collaborator of parts, he wrote several plays with Maxwell Bodenheim, then quarrelled with him resoundingly. In Charles MacArthur he found his perfect complement: together they produced the 1928 smash...
...characters are bewildered," continued Mr. Odets. "The best laid plans go wrong. The sweetest human impulses are frustrated. No one leads a normal life here, and every decent tendency finds its complement in sterility and futility. Our confused middle-class today, which dares little, is dangerously similar to Chekhov's people. Which is why the people in Awake and Sing! and Paradise Lost (particularly the latter) have what is called a 'Chekhovian quality.' Which is why it is so sinful to violate their lives and aspirations with plot lines. Plots are primer stuff, easily learned...
...amazing thing. Malta, traditionally Britain's "Key to the Mediterranean." had become last week an inviting naval keyhole. In fear of Italian bombing planes, the big British ships normally based at Malta had withdrawn to Egyptian and Syrian waters, leaving in the keyhole only a British aircraft carrier, its complement of battle planes and a few-light destroyers as the best weapons to be left there...
Their lectures neither stray away from nor duplicate the assigned reading. They "complement, explain, and discuss" it, surely a broad enough field for any professor. By outlining the fundamental principles which their classes should keep in mind, they are able to show what hearing the reading has on the work. In addition, they bring the enthusiasm and ability to their lectures which is capable of stirring interest to learn the truth of important platitudes. The replies to the Questionnaire show clear evidence that the Freshmen consider these courses the most satisfactory...