Word: complain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hidden Bitterness. Hungary's gallant and bloody bolt for freedom brought more repression; Poland's limited nonsanguinary revolution brought less. In Poland, Western newspapers are to be had, and citizens complain about the government with something approaching freedom. In Hungary only newspaper offices and high officials get printed news from the West, and the people keep their bitterness to themselves. In Poland fearless Cardinal Wyszynski goads the administration; in Hungary Cardinal Mindszenty hides in the American legation. The Hungarian writers who inspired and helped lead the revolution seldom dare to write even sly gibes (though they regularly...
Tonal beauty in every section forms the outstanding feature of the orchestra. The winds have always been strong; but now the strings are demonstrating a richness and, at times, even a brilliance. There is very little to complain of in the technical aspect of their present level of performance...
...alternative to this approach is not necessarily the "raised eyebrows, cryptic comment, and other signs of understanding too occult for syntax" school of criticism. But the Department can, without lowering its commendable standards, re-examine the undergraduate theory courses in which concentrators complain that there are too many detailed exercises intended as a discipline for composers. And although popularity is not always a proper criterion of a good course, consistent unpopularity often indicates a basic defect; when this popularity comes from those most interested in a subject as music majors are, it should be noted and acted upon. Now that...
...hold the eastern half of New Guinea), elected to keep out of the whole New Guinea dispute. Allison also urged the U.S. to reply to an Indonesian request for arms by offering such harmless items as trucks and jeeps, but State again turned him down. Allison's friends complain that his position has been badly distorted in press leaks from Washington (TIME. Dec. 23), believe that he is the victim of some quiet but effective bureaucratic knifing...
...Purge That Failed. In the last six months uneasy Poles have watched Gomulka, their hero of the October 1956 rising, edge back from his "separate road to Socialism" toward closer ties with Moscow. Gomulka has cracked down so hard on the press that he himself was recently heard to complain: "It is nothing but boring trash now." At Moscow last fall he publicly accepted Soviet leadership over all Communist nations. Last fortnight he met Khrushchev secretly at the border-to ask new, large-scale Soviet economic aid, said unofficial Warsaw sources. His party purge, which was supposed to shake...