Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ground attacks were reported. The onslaught was convincing proof that the enemy still has the strength and command coordination to launch countrywide attacks with great precision. The attacks were also proof -if any more was needed-that the heavy and continuous U.S. bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail complex in eastern Laos had not materially damaged Communist supply lines...
...Equally complex issues were raised this mouth by an anonymous letter sent to Dean May accusing an undergraduate of peddling hard drugs. Copies of the letter were also sent to the undergraduate and, according to the letter, to the FBI. Dean May declined to comment on his action on the letter's contents, but he said he was "looking into the case...
Dean May offered another clarification yesterday of the coed living plan for next year with an explanation of the complex computerized voting system to determine which Houses will go coed...
...line that could have been borrowed from Putney Swope, this comic fantasy has more possibilites as soliloquy than as drama. Frederick William Rolfe, English recluse and neurotic who imagines himself Pope, has dreams more concrete than Dorothy's and ambitions no less earthshaking than Swope's. In treating the complex syndromes of Rolfe, playwright Luke has sidestepped the Putney-Swope assumption that what is sick must be funny: the Oz alternative (what is sick should be taken as fantasy) turns out to be dramatically unsatisfying and a little naive...
What seemed lacking in Hadrian VII was a clear resolve to explore Rolfe's personality. Though we can readily laugh at what he has imagined, we are confused by a suspicion that Rolfe the man must have been more complex and brilliant than he comes across in his own fantasy. To present the man and his fantasy in one play, something had to go and it was not humor but psychological depth...