Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...proposed complex to be occupied by three Roxbury area hospitals, the Peter Bent Brigham, the Robert Breck Brigham, and the Boston Hospital for Women. Harvard is the present owner of the proposed Center site...
...discover that people in the olden days are supposed to have had those same old problems which had no solution then and have no solution now. The chief virtue of The Wreckage of Agathon is that it avoids the obvious temptations of easy relevance in favor of a more complex view of the nature of good and evil. John Gardner attempts great things in his novel, but succeeds only in creating a small, funny metaphysical novel that doesn't quite suffice for the problems it raises...
...twenty stories in the book are all concerned with love, but Oates' conception of love is complex enough, and full of enough subtlety and energy, not to be stifling. More bluntly, there's not a role in one of them for Ali MacGraw...
...scenes into a fluid progression. Often he wastes time opening scenes with touches of realistic detail that can only serve to remind us of the artificiality of the entire venture. Only at the beginning of the second act does a quick sequence of vignettes suggest the texture of a complex, "historical" moment wherein a half-dozen events are existing almost simultaneously. The rest of the time we're all too aware of watching the lineal working out of a Plot...
...owner of a parking garage located on a prime commercial lot in Harvard Square says she's been forced out to make way for a high-rise development complex...