Word: complained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOST STUDENTS don't have to wrack their brains when they gripe about Harvard. They complain--often nonchalantly--about parietal rules, course requirements, restrictions on off-campus living, the inaccessability of many professors, the long march from Radcliffe and the Houses to the Yard, and a thousand other things...
...visit to Moscow, in August, Rademaekers was assigned by Intourist to a spacious room in the Rossia Hotel. The view included St. Basil's Cathedral and the famed chime bells of the Spasskaya clock tower in the Kremlin Wall. "Like other Americans there," he recalls, "I did not complain, and I spent money, which is highly regarded by Intourist." Less than two months later, Rademaekers, while in Paris, applied for another Soviet visa and bought his Intourist coupons through a French travel agency. Thus began an amusing case of confused identity...
Most of the anti-research pressure comes from professors in the liberal arts, who rarely land even an unclassified Government contract and thus can easily afford to complain that secret research is academically immoral. In addition to the argument that such research commits the university to aiding what they consider an unjust war, the anti-secrecy professors contend that classified contracts violate the spirit of free inquiry on which scholarship depends and that they make professors agents of the Government...
Reuther took to the tube to ensure swift ratification of his contract, amid fears that Ford's 20,000 skilled workers, who generally complain of getting short shrift compared with their counterparts in the building trades, might revolt. One truculent group shouting "No! No! No!" gathered at a demonstration that ended in a fist-swinging brawl with union officials. In the end, however, the vote ran overwhelmingly-9 to 1 in the case of production workers, nearly 3 to 1 among the skilled men-to stop the costly 49-day strike...
...never seems to have understood the status of the intellectual in British public life. The Establishment has always maintained a sort of marsupial arrangement with members of the intelligentsia. From his well-padded pouch, the infant marsupial may complain about the accommodation and the direction the parent in power may be taking, but that is about...