Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...mention of what these splendiferous palaces are costing the taxpayer, but whatever it costs is too much. Isn't the American stereotype ingrained enough without giving our enemies more fuel for their propaganda machine? All that the article proved to me is that we are furthering an edifice complex instead of true diplomacy...
...Edifice Complex? Sir: As an American born in Norway, I was startled by the interior of the new American embassy building in Oslo. How Architect Saarinen could create this sinister prison interior with its barred rows of cells (not to mention the snake pit in the center) as symbolic of the freedom for which America stands is incomprehensible to me-as is my former countrymen's enthusiastic approval...
...third lecture in the Thursday afternoon series, Messer defined images as mental pictures to which form has been given. He stated that as a person's comprehension of the world becomes more involved, his images of such things as man, woman, and emotion also become more complex...
Died. Chesser M. Campbell, 62, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and president of the Tribune Co. (a complex of 14 corporations including two shipping lines and the New York Daily News) since 1955, top man of the triumvirate that replaced the irreplaceable Colonel Robert R. McCormick; of heart disease; in Baie Comeau, Que. A onetime subscription solicitor who spent much of his 39-year Trib career as the paper's shrewd, aggressive advertising manager, Campbell once received a memo from the colonel's walnut-paneled office stating, "We carry a line over the classified ad section reading...
...More Zealous Psychologists." "And More Blah-Blah." In this book Dr. Kanner said: "There is no raid shelter from the verbal bombs that rain on contemporary parents. At every turn they run up against weird words and phrases which are apt to confuse and scare them no end: Oedipus complex, inferiority complex, maternal rejection, sibling rivalry, conditioned reflex, schizoid personality, repression, regression, aggression, blah-blah, blah-blah and more blah-blah." By contrast, Dr. Kanner exhorted: "Let us, contemporary mothers, together regain that common sense which is yours, which has been yours before you allowed yourselves to be intimidated...