Word: bewail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each semester, academic purists bewail the corrupted, materialistic attitude with which we Harvard students consume our education. In a world where scholars have turned pre-professionals and the grail of knowledge has turned into the golden calf of human capital, academic purists are crusaders in an unholy land--Willie Lomans in a web of modern market forces. Today's students do not take classes. They shop for them. They do not read Courses of Instruction. They read the CUE Guide, the academic equivalent of Consumer Reports. It is no wonder that, for the first time ever, professors caved into...
...President, this is his big chance to become more than "the other guy on the platform" at Clinton's speeches, as one of his aides puts it. To that end, Gore in the past six months has held 16 town-hall meetings around the country to hear federal employees bewail the silly rules they work % under and the money they fritter away. Gore has recruited a full-time staff of 200 mostly young aides (supplemented by about 800 part-timers from inside and outside government), who have torn into their job with remarkable zest. The atmosphere last week in their...