Word: cavil
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...only possible cavil is that the actors occasionally seemed to exert themselves a little too much; the style seemed not quite effortless enough. But to delight a first night audience full of Brahmins who understood no French required a little exertion...
...England architecture exhibit was, qualitatively, one of the best in the Festival's history. One could not cavil with the award in any of the five categories. In the Educational Group, the award went to Harvard's newly-opened Quincy House. The jury commented: "A courageous and successful attempt to prove that a building well designed in a modern idiom can take its place in a Georgian style environment with dignity, assurance, and grace. The structure has been thoughtfully organized in plan and elevation. It is fresh and a real contribution to the Harvard campus, thoughtfully and beautifully detailed...
...thus could not be the reason for the firings. "Credulity," said Funke, "is a girdle that can be stretched only so far." Funke agreed that some employers would "sacrifice the immediate interest of their business to maintain a standard of propriety and decorum at which Victoria herself would not cavil," but, he said, Santangelo "could not be described as Victorian." Added Examiner Funke: "The contiguous employment of male and female in offices and plants has inevitably led to a relaxing of formal barriers and to a tolerance of casual badinage and conduct not free from overtones...
...Baghdad. The $70 million project seemed a lost cause when General Abdul Karim Kassem swept to power last summer. Never one to give up easily, Gropius last January flew to Baghdad himself with plans and models, found, to his relief, that Premier Kassem was enthusiastic.* Kassem's only cavil: the university was not big enough. Gropius promptly agreed to increase the size by one-third (from 8,000 to 12,000 students...
...CAVIL DEPARTMENT: My high function obliges me to point out that this production is not, indeed, entirely perfect, but I thought I would do it down where it would be easy to skip. Be it known then, that an orchestra would have been, if practicable, preferable to two pianos; that all the singers could not always be depended on to produce beautiful tone; and that the door at the left side of the house is a clumsy place for performers to make entrances...