Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Basing his report on a painstaking study of 120 patients at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, Psychiatrist Jacobson said that women are generally better risks than men for rhinoplasty. His reason: male motives are usually more complex, reflect a larger degree of psychiatric disorder...
...reasons for Zazie's serious appeal to critics are complex. For one thing, Author Queneau, a onetime surrealist deeply concerned with language, tries to close the gap between literary and spoken speech in the Zazie novel, runs words together and sometimes employs phonetic spellings. Others see in Zazie a device of savage social satire. Says New Wave Movie Director Louis (Les Amants) Malle: "She's actually the angel come to announce the destruction of Babylon." Still others have compared her to everyone from Joan of Arc (defending popular virtues against monarchists with Napoleonic delusions) to Lolita. In fact...
...fiscal 1960. On top of that, TVA, which has already paid back to the U.S. Government $250 million on its $1.4 billion investment in TVA's power facilities, will pay the Government in yearly installments until it has only a $200 million equity in the power complex...
...boor, a nincompoop, or else a sudden convert to the notion that his home soil is spiritually sterile. Even Henry James, the foremost author in the field, wrote less from an observer's strength than from a vantage point uneasily anchored in an inferiority complex. Talented Novelist Elizabeth Spencer (The Voice at the Back Door) does not entirely escape the compulsion to prove that as a sensitive U.S. writer, she understands the gaucherie of her countrymen. But The Light in the Piazza is one of the best novels in a long time about Americans abroad...
Their on-the-spot accounts of what happened-and the how and why of it -were transmitted to New York over a complex of private Teletype circuits designed to provide two-way communications between election headquarters at the new TIME and LIFE Building in Manhattan and all twelve U.S. bureaus. Correspondents stationed elsewhere phoned directly to special lines in New York, where secretaries manned nine sound-recording devices and transscribed the verbal reports onto paper...