Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...disturbingly straightforward ghoul that has merely giggled at the discussion of foreign policy in the last four television debates grew solemn this week. The suspicion that the candidates' impulsive exchanges of facile polemic on complex problems of foreign policy were, at the least, ill-considered, expanded into violent criticism of their stands...
Artery disease is mysterious and confronts the physician with grave difficulties, no matter where it occurs in the body. But when nature, for safety's sake, packaged the brain and its delicate, complex system of blood circulation inside a bone box, it made things especially tough for doctors. At last week's annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco, the nation's leading medical researchers agreed that the chief obstacle to effective surgery on cranial arteries is one of man's quaint anatomical features-the Circle of Willis (see diagram...
...certain musical vision," worked out in countless rehearsals and set down in graphs and Foss's own specially devised symbols. "If we hit something good," says Foss, "we try to remember it. If something bad, we try to forget it." The technique, insist the players, is far more complex than that of jazz. "It's the difference between playing slapjack and playing bridge...
...Diego State (8,191), strong in science and math, is geared to the area's aviation-electronics complex (Ryan Aeronautical, General Dynamics). S. D. boasts 26 major labs, hopes to get a nuclear reactor. Last year it had half the physics majors in the state-college system. The average freshman IQ: 120-125. The faculty Ph.D. rate: 63%. By 1970 S.D. expects 25,000 students. Says President Malcolm Love, onetime boss of the University of Nevada: "Though we are called a college, we are in deed and in fact a university...
...dark staring out at the quiet of a summer evening that holds the scent of azaleas and the sound of the courthouse clock striking the hour. In his previous books, Color of Darkness and Malcolm, Ohio-born James Purdy, 37, dealt with nightmare subjects in a complex, brooding style that often baffled readers. This time, in the manner of a futurist painter determined to show doubters he can be a master of realistic drawing if he chooses, Purdy uses a simple, controlled and explicit prose to achieve his eerie effects. Whether he is being opaque or clear, Novelist Purdy peoples...