Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the clues could not have been recognized. Everyone in Germany knew that the German Jews were being rounded up and herded away in a brutal fashion. German civilian firms supplied the ovens and other equipment for the camps. By 1943, Germans were widely cautioning one another not to complain about the Nazi regime, because otherwise "you might go up in smoke." Adolf Hitler, in fact, told the German people: "The end of the war will see the end of the Jewish race." On the other hand, it must be remembered the six extermination camps where most victims met their...
...were numerous others. They dispute Styron's judgment that the rebellion was put down with the help of loyal slaves. They bitterly question the mise en scene that depicts most slaves as complaisant plantation Sambos; on the contrary, say the critics, the slaves were constantly plotting insurrections. Finally, they complain that Styron in effect emasculated Turner by portraying him as a celibate harboring onanistic fantasies, whereas the truth, according to Styron's critics, is that Turner was the husband of a black woman on a nearby plantation...
Such examples aside, the feminine consensus holds that a maturity gap separates the sexes. And some females complain that the boys are too intelligent to be fun, which probably says more about the girls than the guys...
Such remarks are regular fare for Dick Tracy fans, but this one proved a bit too much for many readers who wrote to the papers to complain; some made the obvious point that Sirhan Sirhan probably thought that he was employing violence to "put down evil." Some editors reacted as strongly as readers. As soon as he got a glimpse of the offending Tracyism, Donald Brazier, assistant managing editor of the Seattle Times, had it chipped from the printing plate. The Los Angeles Times ran a sampling of some 100 letters it had received criticizing the strip, then added that...
...artists to refuse to let their work be shown. In a few cases, they added threats to destroy work on display but surprisingly often the plea alone fell on sympathetic ears. For years, the Biennale has been about as popular as the only roulette wheel in town. Italians complain that the bureaucrats who administer it, under a Fascist law originally enacted in 1927, discriminate against Italian artists whom they dislike. Foreigners gripe about the oversize Italian pavilion and the reams of red tape. In the 1950s, when the Grand Prix was awarded to established artists, the avant-garde snarled about...