Word: complain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group is the Publicans, named after Jesus' story in Luke 18 about the prayers of the Pharisee and the Publican. Whether they themselves are humble or self-righteous, Hale's latter-day Publicans scorn what they regard as the self-righteousness and hypocrisy of churchgoers. Oddly, many complain about the fact that Christians drink. Other categories...
...only as a method to disguise real differences between the Houses. "What we really should be doing, instead of pre-assignment, is making each House equal--not identical, but equal in quality. Then you wouldn't need pre-assignment. Pre-assignment is like saying 'If you're going to complain about the differences between Houses, we'll make it so that there's nothing you can complain about. But people will still see the differences,"' Prewitt says...
Many academics complain that in its enthusiasm for order, the government has been steadily eroding civil liberties. Now, in the face of a real threat from a small band of terrorists, they fear it will seize the opportunity to clamp down on the liberal movement. Says a leftist member of Schmidt's Social Democratic Party: "The country is in political trouble, it is in economic trouble, and it needs some elements to blame...
Aguirre: The Wrath of God. Many people don't like this Werner Herzog film, which is based on the true story of Aguirre the Madman, a mutinous conquistador who led an expeditionary force down the Amazon River on a disastrous search for gold and glory. Critics complain that Herzog treats his subjects too mechanically, and that the film is visually stunning but thematically vacuous. But such criticism misses the point: Herzog's relentlessly realistic re-enactment of the trip--of the assumption of power by a ruthless brute who rapidly develop into a raving megalomamac and whose subordinates lack either...
...only paper to match the Post in its almost daily attention to Lance's troubles, was beaten to a few disclosures by its own columnist, William Safire. His relentless scrutiny of Lance's loans and insinuations about possible conflict of interests prompted Senator Abraham Ribicoff to complain on July 25 that Lance was being "smeared from one end of the country to the other," a complaint that Ribicoff later retracted. The Times tried to catch up with Safire, but produced a stream of speculative, melodramatic stories. On Aug. 15, for instance, the Times described how relations had cooled...