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...just now conspicuously active in the Orient. Masters of the East and West shores of the Pacific, they are natural opponents. One of them is big, rich, complacent, lazy, subject to delayed reflexes; the other small, inordinately ambitious, troubled with intellectual cramps and an inferiority complex. The big fellow, slow as he is, has finally begun to realize he must do one of four things about the Orient, particularly China...
...concludes that Harvard should reconsider its constitutional set-up, and ask itself this question: "Can the complex modern university he governed both wisely and satisfactorily without effective, constitutional participation of its faculties in the decision of questions of general policy bearing directly on their several education functions...
...listener, if he is at all acquainted with Strawinsky's music, must notice in contemporary compositions the re-echoing not only of his spirit, but also of his treatment of the actual details of writing music. For example, the exciting sound of regular, freakily marked rhythmical beats varied by complex shifts of pulse and accent is a commonly heard effect which everyone associates immediately with the "Strawinsky influence...
...amount of gelatin in the ordinary dessert, he pointed out, is probably less than one tenth of an ounce. No one knows the exact chemical formula of gelatin; it is a complex protein containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...
...South Atlantic. The ship was the British-owned liner Appam, captured off the African coast by a German raider that had already sunk or captured seven vessels. And as the Appam dropped anchor in the harbor of a troubled neutral, it gave the U. S. one of the complex, confused, unprecedented and yet precedent-ridden problems that are the test of the skill of a country's diplomats, the Tightness of its foreign policy, the humanity and firmness of its foreign dealings in a time of international stress...