Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Decline or Survival? Purists complain that free tuition and redbrick expansion are debasing everything old and dear in English higher learning. "MORE will mean WORSE," wrote Novelist Amis recently. Expansionists reply that even the current boom in higher learning is dangerously smaller than that in any comparable country. Former Economist Editor Sir Geoffrey Crowther recently called Britain's backwardness "a formula for nation al decline," urged lowering degree standards to increase graduates. Most Britons are convinced that national survival depends on the future of the redbrick revolution-even if much British nostalgia still rests upon the ancient spires...
Anxious Intellectuals. This kind of ever-contradictory ferment gives the U.S. an exciting intellectual life, but it also makes anxious intellectuals. The intellectuals, in turn, carry their anxiety to the rest of the country through the immensely fast popularization of new ideas. U.S. intellectuals are forever complaining that no one pays attention to their opinions. This is patently untrue: very likely, they complain merely to cover their own guilt at not being as certain about things as they secretly feel they should be?in short, at not being leaders...
Those who do not complain are never pitied, and the quiet death of the University's most distinguished publication, the Harvard Library Bulletin (the final page of the autumn number informs the reader tersely that "By decision of the University administration, the Bulletin ceases publication with the present issue") has aroused little grief locally...
...least a busload of Muslims attend most of Malcolm X's college speaking engagements. For the most part, they seem unwilling to answer an outsider's questions ("you will have to ask our leader"), hesitant to discuss their own relationship to the movement, and anxious to complain of their treatment in the White press ("our arguments are too new for them," said one man; "when we are maligned so often, it has to be deliberate," said another...
...that has kept its color Alive through so many cleanings; this dull null Navy I wear to work, and wear from work, and so To my bed, so to my grave, with no Complaints, no comment: neither from my chief, The Deputy Chief Assistant, nor his chief-Only I complain...