Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are many people, however, who have decided that their vocation must lie in some visual field. These people have little choice at Harvard but to major in Fine Arts. The curriculum rarely satisfies them. In the first place, they complain, Harvard's Fine Arts courses encourage a verbal, rather than visual, appreciation of art. There is too much emphasis on merely collecting and spouting back the material presented in lectures and far too little on actually looking at the works discussed. Students are not trained to see. They learn about paintings and statues as historical events, not as unique...
...second great problem in jobs, which are still largely segregated. The government has taken on more Negroes, but most of them still labor in low-pay, low-status jobs. Hany complain that although they have remained in the very lowest government service classifications, they have trained whites who have risen to the highest levels...
Telegraphed Admiration. Traditionalists deplore the trend and complain that it has vulgarized a stylish, patrician ritual. In the old days, no well-bred European kissed a woman's hand before noon, or outdoors (except at garden parties or the race track), or if she wore gloves-and not at all, in most countries, if she was unmarried. Nowadays, even in strait-laced Spain, girls who are barely old enough to hold up a strapless bra have their hands out. When it is enclosed in a glove, uninhibited males blithely peel it off or smooch the wrist instead...
...Vietnamese government. Although the full extent of American participation in the coup may never be known, Washington is certainly responsible in part through the indications it issued in recent weeks that an efficient, effective military revolt in Saigon would not be deplored. For this reason, the U.S. can hardly complain about last week's activities, and it would not want to anyway, since the new government could hardly be worse than the Ngos' for either South Vietnam or the United States. All early evidence shows that the Ngos' Buddhist replacements will be much more popular domestically and are more interested...
Exporting Men. Some European governments seem almost to discourage research. In Italy, until recently, private industry's R. & D. budgets were taxed as hidden profits; in Germany R. & D. spending is hampered by low depreciation allowances. Germans also complain that the havoc of World War II slowed them grievously, and that higher-paying U.S. corporations continue to siphon off German scientists. General Electric recruiters recently interviewed 170 scientists in Germany, signed up 40 of them...