Word: carping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-educated epicure in the country today has his favorite Delikatessen, whose virtues he will describe in endless, lip-smacking detail. Dallmayr's, a dim, medieval-style emporium with vaulted arches, displays its caviar and Japanese shrimp on cracked ice (artfully hiding its modern refrigeration equipment), while live carp, perch, pike and rainbow trout swim in ornate marble fountains. Hamburg's 150-year-old L.W.C. Michelsen's offers a scientific index to its 1,000-odd spices, exhibits Australian apricots, French bread baked the same day in Paris-and, of all things, Heinz cream-of-mushroom soup...
Thailand's critics sometimes carp about the slowness with which the military are delivering on their
...Carping. Like most other "little" magazines, The Public Interest is not likely to become self-supporting in the near future. But Bell and Kristol, who now rely on backing from Wall Street, and other friends, are pleased by the early response; they estimate a circulation of 5,000 or more at $1.50 a copy. A professor of sociology at Columbia University, Bell commissions most of the stories, for which the authors are paid a token $100; Kristol, executive vice president of Basic Books, does most of the editing. Their magazine, they hope, will re-create some of the atmosphere...
...based businessmen who carp about constantly working under the gun ought to get a look at Fred Eaton. On the roof above his modern office in Caracas, Venezuela, booted militiamen with submachine guns patrol 24 hours a day. They are watching for Communist terrorists who, in a perverse kind of compliment, have focused on Eaton's company as a prime example of Yanqui capitalism. It is Sears, Roebuck of Venezuela, and all of its 13 stores have been the targets of bombs or burning. Though nothing has happened lately, Eaton's workers each night before closing have...
These three figures are set off, as Babe sees it, by a chorus of old people--teachers, parents' a priest--who carp at the children's behavior and eventually drive two of them to death and the other close to it. There is also a pack of boys, and three other young girls--about twenty parts, in short, in any of which a bad performance can spoil a scene. Some fine actors have taken on these roles--Emily Levine as Mrs. Gabor, in particular, Mark Ritts as Johnny Rilow, Susan Channing as Ilse, and Patricia Hawkins, who creates a character...