Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time. Because of the damage to groves and fresh fruit caused by the freakish cold, the price of oranges is already up from 20? to 24? a pound, and the price of frozen orange juice has jumped from 20? to 30? a can. If the housewife has cause to complain, the citrus industry's laments are somewhat muted. For an industry chronically beset by overproduction-and still selling off the remains of last year's record crop-the freeze was something of a deliverance...
Szell harbors a hidden fondness for musicians, but he keeps it under perfect control. At work with his orchestra, he is so immaculately severe that a few players complain of his cruelty, hinting darkly that he has driven a musician or two into emergency mental care. Others feel that he is so coldly unresponsive to their feelings that he pushes them past the point of artistic aspiration, rehearsing so much that they pass their peak before concert time. "If you really want to hear how good we are, come to rehearsal," says a Cleveland violinist...
...white Americans who worry about the Negro with real social passion. Negroes do not want to know or understand these whites who are certainly neither less corrupt nor more good than others. Negroes have learned how much more easy and comforting is the stereotype, indeed the caricature. We all complain of 'the ghetto." One admirable quality of liberals has been their attempt to expand their understanding to bridge the social gap, while anti-liberals have done little to expand theirs in the other direction. Perhaps the anti-liberals are only caught in the contemporary trend that views love...
Fake or not, it is easy to understand why so many of the young have been led to play Follow My Leader with Seymour. In the Salinger world, most things which trouble those in the process of growing up have been magically abolished (Salinger is said to complain that his true audience is too small to reach his books on the shelves). The Glass children have no need to do anything better than mother or father; they just are superior. Father Les ("Less") is a midget personage when compared with any of his offspring. Mother Bessie is a slightly comic...
...Some political philosophers complain of a 'tired lull' and the absence at present of argument on general politics in this country." wrote British Historian Lewis Namier before his death in 1960. "Practical solutions are sought for concrete problems, while programs and ideals are forgotten by both parties. But to me this attitude seems to betoken a greater national maturity, and I can only wish that it may long continue undisturbed by the workings of political philosophy...