Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many junior faculty members complain thestringent tenure process provides disincentives toteach here, and some department chairs concede ithampers their recruitment efforts. They alsoobject to the secrecy which shrouds the process...
...community should wait to complain until there is a reason to do so. The University has not yet hired an architect, and the administration has demonstrated its willingness to accommodate the community in its decisions thus...
...space for Knafel, however, will have the greatest impact on those who live and worship in the area. Residents complain with good reason that the Knafel Center would further diminish what little "buffer zone" they have with hulking structures of the University, and that it would detract from Cambridge's New England character. They worry about the congestion, both pedestrian and vehicular, that could result from such a crowded block. And parishioners at the Swendenborgian Church of New Jerusalem, located at the corner of Quincy and Kirkland streets, fear Knafel would drown them in shadow. Residents...
...relax while sober. Dancing is scarce at many campus parties, and the little that takes place is terribly inhibited. Most students, especially men, refuse to dance before downing a beer. After that beer, one might hope for good company. But inevitably, someone broaches the topic of schoolwork, likely to complain about how many pages there are to write the next morning for one class or another. Papers as cocktail talk? Professors would be pleased, but there are no TFs around to award brownie points. The whole thing makes for lousy parties...
While some colleagues found Simon open and willing to listen to suggestions, others complain that he was less than receptive to dissenting ideas. (Walcott was reportedly even more prickly about proposed changes in the book he and Simon had written.) "I guess if you really become insistent on being happy with what's going on, some people are going to think you're difficult," Simon responds. "I don't think so. That's an artist's right." Yet an impending opening can focus the mind, and Simon eventually became convinced that he needed help from an experienced Broadway hand like...