Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...himself articulated some of the competitive disadvantages of the open society. "Here in our country," he said in last week's televised speech to the nation, "anyone can buy maps and aerial photographs showing our cities, our dams, our plants, our highways-indeed, our whole industrial and economic complex. We know Soviet attaches regularly collect this information. Last fall Chairman Khrushchev's train passed no more than a few hundred feet from an operational ICBM. in plain view from his window." But openness also has its advantages. It fosters self-scrutiny and public criticism and free speech-more...
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...summiteers were determined to make no real concession at all on Berlin. For Berlin has become both a symbol and a vital test of the West's determination to resist Communist encroachment against the free world. The legal foundation on which Western possession of the city rests is complex and to tamper with it is risky. As De Gaulle observed during his visit to Canada last month: "If we do not want an easing of tensions, then we can try for a solution in Berlin. But if we want an easing, we must...
Ross, by British Playwright Terence (Separate Tables) Rattigan, opened last week with Alec Guinness as Lawrence of Arabia. A complex, 16-scene production, the play reaches brilliantly, perhaps too slickly, into its legendary hero's mind, illuminating but never completely resolving the essential enigma: Was Lawrence the spectacular hero who inspired and led the Arabs in their World War I revolt against the Turks, or was he a lying, unstable charlatan...
...Realists, has a plot so simple as to be almost invisible: Will Newlyweds Alain and Gisele succeed in forcing widowed Aunt Berthe to let them have her spacious five-room apartment? Will Alain be accepted in the salon of a famed writer? But the style is as complex as the plot is simple. Author Sarraute plunges deep into the interior dialogue of first one and then another character, while the reader, like a cryptographer, is expected to find clues of identity where...