Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black Power sentiment is fed, among other things, by the urban Negro's pent-up resentment of the white businessmen who make their living from the slum's daily needs. These white-run enterprises, blacks complain, not only batten on the ghetto's misery by overcharging for shoddy goods but also siphon off their profits from Negro neighborhoods and seldom employ black workers...
POLITICIANS and intellectuals have always been the uneasiest of bedfellows. Members of the academic community constantly complain that too little attention is paid to their insights on policy matters; party stalwarts respond to academic criticism by observing that John Kenneth Galbraith gets out very few votes in East Boston on election...
...front-page news story in Tuesday's CRIMSON [on 'The Double Helix'] is reasonably accurate, although I might complain of a couple of direct quotations made out of context. Nor can I object in general to the tenor of the editorial which appears in Wednesday's CRIMSON. But the editorial is in some parts definitely unfair and inaccurate...
...deferments. If not, Hunt recommends a multi-issue approach for several months before the probable induction date: make a claim for conscientious objection (even if it is unrealistic it will waste time and tends to lessen the jail sentence if you eventually refuse induction), begin seeing a therapist and complain about your fears of entering the army, engage in anti-war activities, write a series of indignant and inflammatory letters to your draft board...
...permanent status are usually subject to favorable review by ad hoc committees, consisting of scholars outside the nominating department and appointed by the Dean. The Corporation (the President and Fellows), which legally holds the authority, accepts the ad hoc recommendation in almost all cases. Therefore when students justifiably complain that teaching ability as well as scholarly reputation should be a criterion for appointments, they should direct their lobbying to the senior members of the Departments...