Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Asia, this had not been enough. In Asia, the props of ordered freedom were just not strong enough to withstand the Communist pressure. So China fell while the U.S. argued about the political morals of Chiang Kai-shek and consoled itself with babble about the hopeless "complexity of the situation." After that, "the situation" became infinitely more complex and the reality harder & harder to ignore. The reality was: Communism was winning the victory and might never have to resort...
...making nowadays. Braque and Picasso were once Montmartre pals, painted almost indistinguishable cubist pictures. After the two parted, Braque stuck with cubism, gradually developed it into the tricky, fluid and elaborate medium of expression he employs today. In his spotless Paris studio, Craftsman Braque works at his complex, heavily textured canvases slowly and with obvious enjoyment. "The fun," he says, "is that when you begin a picture you never know what it's going to look like. Each new work is a journey into the unknown." The Terrace represented a twelve-month on & off cruise for Braque...
...revolution was achieved by substiuting mechanical energy for human and animal energy on a vast scale, by developing mass production, better distribution, and "a multitude of new and improved machines," e.g., earth movers, cranes, mechanical mixers, coal-mining machines. Also developed was a complex new form of industrial organization to integrate the vast numbers of men and machines. Said C.E.D.: "The managers of 100 years ago [could not] administer enterprises ... as large as those in modern industry . . ." To run the huge new enterprises, corporations had perfected a vast system of management, run by staff and line officers, in turn guided...
Russell summed up American foreign policy in Europe and the Far East. He advocated adherence to the complex of United Nations organs and agencies, coal and steel and atomic energy authorities, North Atlantic and Inter-American Organizations, claiming that the structure of peace and protecting our freedoms are one and the same...
...September 13, the Regents' rules were refined further by William Jansen, New York City superintendent of schools. Jansen published a complex reporting system; principals were to testify on their teachers, assistant superintendents on principals, and so on up to the apex: the city's Board of Education...