Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audiences seem in no mood to complain. Advance sales and guarantees have already reached $500,000, and some of the profits will go toward the regiments' band and uniform funds. So warm was the response that at the first-act finale the audience swung into a fervent refrain...
...just before Johnson's last trip to Texas. Instead of welcoming all the news, the press grumbled that it should have been ladled out over a period of two or three days. "If we had done that," continued Moyers, "that would have been managing the news. Newsmen complain if they get too little and if they get too much. As Oscar Wilde put it, 'In the old days we had the rack. Today we have the press...
Anyway, who are reporters to complain about L.B.J.? "He has no peer as an editor," declared Moyers, who discovered in his boss a talent that even Presidential Aide Jack Valenti did not cite in his famous catalogue of L.B.J.'s virtues. "He's a very demanding and precise editor. He has the ability to reduce ten pages...
...soaks it all in, none of the usual Mississippi cotton bolls stuffing his ears, hashes it through in his Princeton-cultivated mind, and bangs out his conclusions on the typewriter. Cambridge may complain that it's not the 100 per cent SNCC line, but if it were, he wouldn't be a journalist...
...radical revision" could lead to what Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak calls "a crisis of timidity" among the bishops. Taking their cue from Paul's warnings and from conservative clamor at home, bishops may be content to draw back from the full implications of aggiornamento. Already there are Catholics who complain that the council is a failure for having avoided the real issues facing the church?Christian unity and a radical revision of the church's institutions and forms. England's Canon F. H. Drinkwater, for example, wonders how Pope John would feel about his council "wasting month after precious month...