Word: complexities
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Panic or Apathy. The problem was complex. The job required building and maintaining for an indefinite future a vast, complex organization that would be needed, no one knew when, that might never be needed at all. Uncertainty posed a psychological dilemma. Keeping civilians in a constant state of fear would produce impossible local demands on government, provoke the panic in an emergency which would compound catastrophe. Kept in a state of induced calm-even if that were possible-people would get apathetic...
...Zero), the city would appear to have been struck by a giant fist. Within that radius would be the lofty Empire State Building, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building; the teeming cliff dwellings of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town; Klein's department store; 14th Street's subway complex; a labyrinth of gas mains, water lines, telephone cables, electric wires; 55 elementary schools, high schools and trade schools; 17 universities and private schools; twelve of the city's hospitals...
...Faulkner country carries little conviction, even though 38-year-old Author Gordon was born in Savannah, comes of an old Southern family, and obviously is against lynchings. His variation on an old theme, played for chills, is not likely to add to anybody's understanding of a complex problem...
...Edinburgh oldtimers, Glyndebourne's production of Ariadne, a complex opera-within-a-play, was the four-year-old festival's most ambitious single project yet. Some of the credit went to chin-tufted Sir Thomas Beecham in the pit. But most of it was due to a big, swarthy, white-maned man named Carl Ebert, who has directed the famed Glyndebourne, and all of its festival productions, since Glyndebourne's start...
Edge of Doom (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) sets out to dramatize Catholic Author Leo Brady's prizewinning novel about a twisted youth who kills a priest. The book was largely an introspective study of the killer's complex motives and his painful redemption. On the screen, the story becomes a second-rate melodrama with a wispy religious motif...