Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eighteen months have passed since Red Chinese troops occupied 12,000 square miles of northern Indian soil. The troops are still there. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been heard to complain, but has done little else. Last week, as the Indian Parliament's new session got under way, pent-up tempers exploded. "Have we grown so soft?" demanded Asoka Mehta, leader of the Praja Socialist Party. "Surely the brave soldiers of India have never said they would not march." Cries of "cold feet" rang out, and one M.P. demanded that Nehru "apologize" to the nation...
...librettists. In their adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's 18th century play, as in the Puccini score, there are more hints of harshness and modernity than in any of his other works-shrieking harmonies; a howling, fickle mob; even political irony, as when the three comic but cruel ministers complain that the graveyards are full because of too many executions. And yet, try as he might, Puccini could not write ugliness. He remained, happily, a prisoner of his melodious gift, and tenderness keeps breaking into the nervous, jagged moods. The mixture makes Turandot Puccini's most fascinating opera...
...Weeks in Bed. Mono victims, especially coeds, complain that the disease leaves them weak for months, and keeps recurring. Yet the best current medical opinion is that the severity of the disease depends on the victim's physical fitness-or unfitness. An athlete in training who is getting plenty of sleep may throw it off as nothing more than a bad cold. But even a well-trained cadet or midshipman, going short of sleep during the holiday social whirl and plunging into a tough round of studies, may be a pushover. Most susceptible are young women who are going...
Unpaid Bills. The founder and sole proprietor of what he liked to claim was the world's largest individually owned construction company, Hayes had contracted to build some $60 million in housing projects at U.S. military bases. Last spring, when some of his subcontractors began to complain about money owed them. Hayes called an abrupt halt to all the work on projects yet uncompleted (TIME, June 6). On the sites, virtually nothing has happened since. Not only are there unfinished houses, but huge piles of lumber and other building materials are being ruined by the winter weather...
...worthy of much attention. A substitution of the CEEB tests for the Harvard test might well improve the efficiency of the evaluating process; raising the level required, on the other hand, would only increase undergraduate irritation. Even a student who approves of Gen Ed in principle is likely to complain about having to participate in it. A high language standard is prone to be viewed as a pain, not as a "recognition of true ability...