Word: complained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main piece was Beethoven's "Grand Symphony"-whose fateful dot-dot-dot-dash opening now means "V for Victory." A new, concealed spotlight picked out the pale, rhetorical hands of the conductor, emotional Leopold Stokowski. There was applause, and Times Critic Olin Downes took to his typewriter to complain of the orchestra's playing and the symphonic ways of "this curious man" Stokowski. This was the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's opening of its 100th birthday season...
...Britain. Paper restrictions have forced circulation reduction from 203,000 (prewar) to 167,000. But demand is far above that, despite a price increase from tuppence to threepence. Although it once printed a quarter-million words an issue, the Times, now paper-rationed to ten pages, does not complain of paper rationing. But privately, of course, Timesmen see little sense, or justice, in the fact that the Times, which is in a class by itself, should be rationed as severely as the mass-circulation sensational press...
...They could figure that Russia was not aiding the U.S. in the same direct military way as it was aiding Britain. They could recall Munich, chide British tardiness in arming in the first "phony" months of the war, criticize British failure to invade the continent this summer. They could complain about Russian secretiveness and suspicion...
With several members in each House and Freshman Hall, the committee will attempt to handle each problem individually. Students who feel they are treated unfairly should complain to one of these members, who will take it up with the store officials...
Excitement seekers who complain that the newsreel outfits aren't taking advantage of their chance to photograph history as it gallops past, haven't any more kick coming. For what the newsreels haven't done, Hollywood has-in no uncertain manner. "A Yank in the R. A. F." packs enough wallop in its action shots to satisfy the appetite of the most thrill-hungry customer. And when it comes to making a graphic account of the events of Europe today, scenes like the British evacuation from Dunkirk, and the night raid over Berlin tops, for sheer punch, anything that...