Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...adult does not have as vivid a memory or understanding of the bombing as did Lifton, or John Hersey, and can not relate to it in the terms Lifton suggests. While psychological disorientation and the Protean state are observable in modern man, they can be traced only to a complex of social conditions, not to such a simple explanation as Lifton's. On this point, and in the book as a whole, Lifton has very accurately described a number of the problems of modern society, and ascribed them to simplistic solutions. It may be a function of the intellectual climate...
Ball announced the discovery on Friday of formic acid and ethyl alcohol-organic compounds Ball called "much more complex than any other molecules discovered in space...
...Planning Team has backed the construction of a low-rise apartment complex, possibly containing only four or five stories, on a site of land located at the corner of Harvard and River Streets...
...American Yippie Jerry Rubin in Do It!, his handbook for the modern revolutionary. In cities throughout the non-Communist world, that stage is alive with alarming activities: politically motivated arson, bombing, kidnaping and murder. Closely related to these is the phenomenon of skyjacking, for just as the highly complex 20th century city is the most vulnerable point in man's terrestrial sphere, so is the thin-skinned, 600-m.p.h. jet the most vulnerable in the atmosphere. The terrorist activity is worldwide, and most of it is carried out by a new type in the history of political warfare: the urban...
...take on the cop, capitalism and the Establishment. He can, says Wahl, even murder without guilt. Many revolutionaries suffer from searing feelings of inadequacy, Wahl adds, and therefore have a greater-than-ordinary need for notoriety. Supporting this view, De Paul University Psychologist Thomas Milburn speaks of the "Icarus complex" among many terrorists?"even though you fall to earth, you've tried one spectacular thing...