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When she was five, an older boy playfully threw Betty off the end of a pier. She hit a nail in one of the pilings and snagged her left cheek, near the eye; the scar is still faintly noticeable. "It made my inferiority complex worse," says Betty. "The kids called me 'Bad-eye Bodie' and nicknames like that, that hurt real bad. So I acted fresh and tomboyish, as if I was tougher than anybody on the block...
...tell the nose. Her manager, a light blond, told us that in her less jungle-like moments La Voodoo was known as Stella Danfray. They were just in from Hollywood where DcMille had given her a screen test. And how did La Voodoo like Hollywood? "Ect is so complex, so hectic. But zee country ees so beautiful." What interested her most in the States? She looked around for her manager who had gone off in the corner with the buyers. American slang was the answer; she spoke English well, but these quaint expressions--they confused her. Someone in the little...
...didn't realize Harvard had such as inferiority complex," said a freshman, opposed by a sophomore from the same hall, whose experience had found Crimson men to be "conceited--on masse...
...thoughtful, intelligent wife, Celia Johnson displays just enough martyr complex to make her role appealing but not maudlin. Though her rational plans go awry and she cannot maintain a marriage based on mutual need rather than love she is a refreshing and stable antidote to the decaying lovers...
From an economic standpoint, integration is a worthy goal, but the methods of bringing it about are very complex and controversial. For instance, in the nineteenth century abolishing tariffs would automatically integrate economics. But such a move is now useless when nations have other rigid controls on trade. Also integration could never be effective as long as neighboring countries could pursue separate fiscal policies...