Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...form rooms or class rooms where there was no privacy and a good deal of opportunity for bullying . . . The games worship was at its height . . . No one was considered anything unless he was good at games, and the result was to create an inferiority complex in the unathletic...
Wringing Hand. Two patterns are clear in Asia today, he said. One is "a revulsion against . . . misery and poverty as the normal condition of life"; the other is "the revulsion against foreign domination." Then he rolled with ball-bearing ease into his own theory of China's complex postwar struggles. It included the familiar State Department apologia for its own miserable failure in China: nothing the U.S. could have done, he said once more, could have changed things one iota. "What has happened in my judgment is that the almost inexhaustible patience of the Chinese people in their misery...
Performance. Said Sean O'Faolain: "The influence of the United States on Europe is the influence of a grandchild on his grandfather. This possibly will, if all goes well, be known in time as the Aeneas-Anchises complex, in grateful commemoration of the bravery, or obstinacy, of Aeneas in carrying his purblind sire out of the crumbling city of Troy...
What practical jobs can a calculator do? Merely describing its complex problems would require difficult mathematics, but there are some simple examples...
...what make scientists wildly excited about the new computers. Virtually every branch of science is surrounded by beetling walls of unscalable figures. The hazy paths of electrons whirling around a nucleus, the speeding flow of air over an airplane's wing, the structure and reactions of complex chemical molecules-all these involve continents and oceans of figures, figures, figures. Sometimes a simple answer (a small number, or even a yes or a no) would cost a lifetime or 100 lifetimes of human calculation...