Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jencks. They applaud the American graduate school, which creates these academic professionals, as "the envy of the world." But they also complain that the graduate school smothers much-needed diversity in education, often fails to link learning and life, and continually belittles its teaching duties...
Then Mayor Charles B. Ryan hurried to Washington to complain about "a rigged deal." But the more inevitable the closing looked, the more Springfield merchants discussed alternatives. They organized a 17-man Armory Planning Committee, ordered private surveys of the 97-acre plant in addition to accepting a $30,000 Government grant for feasibility studies. And they tapped personal contacts. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Chairman Leland Kalmbach talked to a golfing partner, General Electric Vice President Jack Parker, and got a G.E. commitment to move some of its armament operations to Springfield. Now G.E. has leased the armory shops, hired...
...diplomatic packets. Forbidden to visit the grave of Confucius in Shantung, Girard contrived to overfly it in a small plane so as to describe it better. When the two-year task was finally completed, a copy of the book was sent to Chou, who found only two things to complain about: that the book called Chiang Kai-shek's regime in Taiwan a "government" and Hong Kong "a British colony" (he called it a "Chinese territory occupied by British imperialism, which China is determined to recover...
Other students, including many sympathetic to the demonstrators' demands, began to complain about their disruptive tactics. Outside Low Library, some 200 counterdemonstrators cried: "Get 'em out! Get 'em out!" Some threw eggs. A group of Columbia athletes volunteered to remove the protesters, but were restrained by school officials. "If this is a barbarian society," growled a burly wrestler, "then it's survival of the fittest-and we're the fittest...
...small group of Senior Faculty--maybe 50--end up writing a huge proportion of the grad school and fellowship recommendations, and some of Harvard's most popular professors complain privately of the amount of their time this process consumes. Finley worries that the prospect of writing so many letters scares some Faculty members away from accepting Masterships. Neglecting this unpleasant chore would be tempting, Gill says, except that the letters "happen to be terribly important. In an impersonal world, you can do a lot," Finley says, and Harvard has a record to prove...