Word: complained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even within the white, fortress-like mass of concrete that serves as the U.S. embassy in Saigon, Ambassador Martin is controversial these days. Some of his bright young Foreign Service subordinates bristle at the old man's intransigency. They complain that he squelches the normal give and take of policy discussion, refuses to pass along to Washington any political reporting that does not conform to his own, and limits distribution of State Department messages to a few hand-picked aides...
Despite the loss, the Crimson can hardly complain, as it threw a big scare into one of the best teams in the country. In so doing, the team nearly fulfilled Coach Bob Scalise's pre-season prediction that Harvard's enthusiasm and desire would make up for any talent deficiency...
Sexual Stereotypes. Coed living does not spell the end of sexual stereotypes. Women complain that they get stuck with a larger share of housework. But both sexes admit that they keep their rooms neater than they would living alone. Says a Manhattan male who is sharing his apartment with a divorcee: "I guess it's a matter of pride...
Invariably, the unemployed complain of the boredom and tensions of enforced idleness. They spend the first weeks off the job doing all the long-put-off chores-fixing up the house, puttering with the car. But after a while everything is fixed, and there is nothing to do. Says Dave Lee, 25, who lost his job with a window manufacturer in Bayport, Minn.: "I read magazines, I wash the car, I help my wife clean, I shovel snow. I just try to pass the time. It's 24 hours a day, and it's terrible...
...recent years, Erikson has been the target of growing criticism. Students complain of the ambiguity and elusiveness of his pronouncements. Feminists denounce him for his 1963 essay, Womanhood and the Inner Space, in which he insisted that anatomy is destiny, and that a woman is "never not a woman." He recently repudiated his long-held sunny view of the American character and depicted the nation as a world bully that has "transgressed against humanity and nature." One of his critics, University of Michigan Psychologist David Gutmann, wrote in Commentary last fall that Erikson "has begun to sound less like...