Word: complexe
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...readers may conclude that Caldwell is mellowing into a merely successful writer. Examined more closely, they warrant another guess. More skilful, briefer than Caldwell's last collection, Kneel to the Rising Sun (1935), they suggest that Caldwell is feeling his way toward a less stylized, less repetitious, more complex kind of writing...
Three stories attempt more complex situations. In the subtlest of these. Return to Lavinia, a storekeeper returns from his honeymoon with a schoolteacher, reassures his mulatto housekeeper that she will always come first...
...Niels Bohr and France's Louis de Broglie. Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrodinger of Germany and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac of England had been expected but did not appear. These five men alone have created almost the whole structure of Quantum Mechanics, which deals mathematically with the mathematically complex innards of the atom. Presumably, Herren Heisenberg and Schrodinger were forbidden to attend because of the Nazi Government's antipathy for the League of Nations. Why Dirac of democratic Britain did not appear was not disclosed. Physicist Heisenberg's paper was presented for him by colleagues from Belgium...
...Majesty and set up a Fascist state with himself as Führer and Adolf Hitler as an ally, Leader Codreanu was found guilty, sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Balkan justice being what it is, Leader Codreanu was considered to have got off lightly. In the complex fabric of Balkan politics, however, the sentence did mean that King Carol was taking no nonsense from Nazis or Nazi friends...
...board of health last fortnight discovered a pair of starving, premature twins, a boy and a girl who did not look alike. While hospital nurses washed and fed them, health officers last week tried to get their mother, a woman of 36, two years a widow, to clarify a complex situation. She had already had twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both jobless Spaniards. Luis' mother had been minding...