Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...point during his television address to the nation last week, Richard Nixon lost his place in the typescript. For four or five seconds he shuffled pages, eyes darting through paragraphs to pick up the trail again. For the nation watching, it was an instant of complex psychology. There was the acute embarrassment and sympathy for the speaker who has fluffed his lines. There was also, for some, an eccentric half hope that if he could not continue, an absurdist, McLuhan logic would apply: "The U.S. was about to move into Cambodia, but the President lost his place in the script...
...Saigon, is often widely dispersed. As they searched for it, the troops found elaborate underground bunkers almost everywhere they turned: plucking a pineapple from the ground at an innocent-looking farm in the Fishhook, an astonished G.I. discovered that he had opened the disguised door to a huge underground complex complete with bunkrooms and mess halls. Tanks rolled over suddenly sagging fields that covered elaborate below-ground facilities...
...System"-does it work? To some extent, yes. But not enough, not quickly enough. What are we supposed to do with our lives? How do we go about solving the complex problems of our world? "Work with the System," we hear. "You're young and strong, and besides, the problems aren't really as bad as you think...
...much less start World War III. Since the Soviets have denied that they are flying air defense over Egypt, they are under no obligation to admit to casualties or clashes. Aside from such slender consolation, the increased Soviet role obviously raises ominous "what-if" questions that complicate an already complex and dangerous situation...
ANTONY'S death seen is especially complex because he acts in the fire of heroic pride as well as the fire of self-dissolving love. He commits suicide as an act of love- self-love and love for Cleopatra. The fact that she is dissimulating shows that, as at Actium, she cannot comprehend manly honor until it demands the man's death. She will require the sad spectacle of Antony's expiration to realize her implication in his fate, his in hers, and their common destiny as honorable lovers. Antony, at death, finally associates honor with the divine nobility...