They make it all seem so easy, the way they bounce off each other and simplify the most complex ideas.
His evident engagement with his material, his gift for lucid exposition of the most complex ideas, together with his utterly unstuffy approachability and human warmth made him a hugely admired teacher across an astonishing range of subjects.
Contrary to what the weapons dilettantes might fear, it does not oppose "high tech" (rather complexity) in our air power, but advocates some of the most complex, costly, and stupid weapons ideas since the Imperial Japanese Navy's super-battleships of World War II, long ago sent to the bottom of the Pacific.
Clements is credited with the idea of climax vegetation as the most complex vegetation that an environment can support and Tansley introduced the concept of ecosystems to biology.
But at the same time the label conveys the opposite idea, namely that (in the terabyte age) even the most complex interactions can be opened-up through digital analysis.
Beyond ratifying the impotence of the establishment, their desperation confirms the demise within the GOP of something far more important -- the very idea of what qualifies a person to assume the most complex and demanding office in a dangerous world.
Meanwhile, as a longtime creative writing instructor, I was most concerned with the guy's voice, his diction, his ability to express a complex idea clearly, his education and finally, his face.
So he has to address that and yet, at the same time, pose as a serious candidate with real ideas about how to govern one of the biggest and most complex cities in the world.
