Word: complex
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Nathan Sivim, associate professor of Humanities at M. I. T., said that Chinese medical practice is "humanitarian and personal rather than scientific and technical." He explained that medical science in China is "a unitary complex of concepts" which involves a philosophic, non-empirical approach to the internal harmony of bodily organs...
...Conant. The fourth, Nathan Marsh Pusey, a tough, capable and frequently courageous man, led a more complex university in a time that sustained few titans. Last week, in a long-awaited move, he announced his early retirement...
...litany runs through poisoned air and water to clotted highways, nerve-jangling noise, reeking dumps and an ugly bulldozed countryside. Improved technology and advancing production have made life increasingly complex, frantic and wearing. Complaints are rolling in -not only from youthful rebels but also from the supposedly silent majority Middle Americans, to say nothing of scientists and politicians. Urbanologists fret about cities swollen to dinosaur dimensions that defy efficient management and create immense social costs through crime, congestion and drug addiction. Ecologists raise the specter 'in a planet made uninhabitable by the pressures of a rising population. Some environmentalists...
Rothko believed that a painting breathes in the understanding of those who see it. His works do not live easily in our eye. Like all complex, contemporary art, they question us, confuse us with shape, dazzle us with size...
...comments to Mr. Epps. I meant to convey that the GSA hasn't been very effective in dealing with the food problem, not that "we haven't been very active" because we lack expertise. The situation is complex. However, I have learned enough to believe that most inefficiencies in food policies derive from Harvard's contracting and accounting policies, with some contributions, as always, from the ever-inefficient B and G. As in most of my overtures for improvements in student living conditions. I feel like I'm arguing with an accounting system. The locus of responsibility for this...