Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...broke bank windows and lobbed blue paint bombs, rocks and tear-gas grenades at the entrance to the federal courthouse before 290 nightstick-swinging police dispersed them. In Washington, D.C., a group of 500-chanting, "Two, four, six, eight, liberate the Watergate"-marched on the luxury Potomac-side apartment complex that houses a number of high Nixon Administration officials, including Attorney General John Mitchell...
...talent for selfcriticism. In Japan Unmasked, former Japanese Diplomat Ichiro Kawasaki ascribes the arrogance of the Japanese to what he calls their preoccupation with social rank. Writes Kawasaki, who was sacked from the diplomatic corps last year because his book created such an uproar: "The Japanese harbor an inferiority complex toward Europeans and Americans, while they tend to treat Asians with a superiority complex. This is why the average Japanese, while feeling at home in the company of Asiatics, often betrays arrogance and disdain...
Alinsky deliberately cultivates his split personality; he believes that a well-developed case of schizophrenia is essential to successful radicalism. The radical knows in his heart that life is tragic, men are complex, and every course of action involves a choice of evils. Nevertheless, he must act as if he were utterly convinced of the righteousness of his cause. Only by so doing can he rally his supporters and intimidate the opposition. The Founding Fathers, Alinsky points out, were well aware of the benefits that England had bestowed on the colonies. But what impact would the Declaration of Independence have...
...Department no longer has the momentum it once had." White said last night. "It has become so large and complex that if it doesn't split now, it will split in several years anyway, in much less favorable circumstances...
...locked into forward motion that leads to their destruction. Fury shows that they have to learn to see what they are in and what they are doing. When they recognize that the track in cannot ran over everything in its path, they will be able to live in a complex society...