Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Musicae of Barcelona, Soprano De Los Angeles exhumes some of the neglected treasures of Spanish song with happy results. The songs for the most part deal with unrequited love ("So sharp is my desire/ Sweet lady, and my pain/ I feel my life expire/ Yet dare not to complain"), and they are beautifully sung-with opulence of tone and an engaging air of gentle melancholy...
...thanks to a postwar inflow of U.S. firms to capitalize on Flanders' cheap, ample labor, a glossy sheen of wellbeing. Wallonia, meanwhile, is practically a depressed area, dotted with played-out coal mines and plagued with rising unemployment. But the Flemings still see all sorts of injustices, complain, for instance, that they have only 13 of Belgium's 83 diplomatic jobs abroad. While Brussels is officially bilingual from its street signs down to its liquor labels, French is preferred by the majority. One Fleming complained to Sabena Airlines not long ago because its sugar lumps were labeled sucre...
...loincloths, hunted with crossbows and poisoned arrows, and worshiped animist spirits who lived in trees. Yet Captain Cordell, 27, was so successful in training, arming and protecting some 100,000 montagnards that the complex of fortified villages under his command became a showplace for visiting VIPs. Often Cordell would complain that he had to spend more time squiring dignitaries than fighting the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas...
...hands in the little Brazilian cacao port of Ilhéus complain that the place has become overcivilized, and with reason. Take the matter of government. In the past, a sane, orderly rule was established and maintained in Ilhéus by the most efficient of means: gunfire. Now, in the 1920s, there are modernists who say that gunfire is outdated; the new method is the free election. Polls are rigged, of course, to ensure that power remains in the proper hands, but oldtimers see no merit in the innovation; the elections are cumbersome and not at all entertaining...
...spike heel has made its mark on the U.S. ever since it speared its way into fashion, leaving behind a trail of dented vinyl, punctured Persian rug and pockmarked hardwood. But spike wearers complain that they are forever getting mired in asphalt, countersunk on lawns, trapped on escalator steps and sidewalk gratings. Now comes Heeleze, plastic disks that are to spike heels what snowshoes are to the boot. Heeleze are about an inch overall in diameter, now come in one size but will soon come in three, designed to fit most heels, and are being distributed initially by caterers...