Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question was where, among so many artists of stature, to limit the list. In the end, Murphy decided that there were four who stood out clearly above the others. His four choices will be found in this week's Music section. Readers may quarrel with his favorites or complain of omissions, but Murphy (his memory refreshed by hearing them again on records) is prepared to stand by his choices...
...Critic Anthony Powell attempts to explain the down-to-earth gravity of Firbank's thistledown art, and to deal with the strange power of such lines as " 'He has only one eye and I never know which one is looking at me,' the Queen would sometimes complain." Although apparently a freakish offshoot of modern literature, Firbank was actually a great innovator, Powell suggests. Two masters of dialogue, Ivy Compton-Burnett and Evelyn Waugh, sat in Firbank's school. In fact, Firbank's exotics-improbable princesses, epicene cardinals, Caribbean market queens and so on-talk with...
...fisheries for secret release in lakes near Seattle. Then he drives out in the early morning to watch the fun. "All of a sudden," he says, "someone will yell like hell when he ties into one of these monsters. Fishing rods get broken, and as the word spreads, residents complain about the cars parked all over. It's a real mess...
...often played soccer and volleyball, but some Americans began to complain that we didn't come all the way to Africa for that...
With some justice, Gromyko can complain about the inscrutable Americans, for during much of last week the U.S. flickered with semiofficial hints of compromise, most of which were later denied. In sum, however, Gromyko's report to his boss is that the U.S. is ready to talk, even to make concessions-but only after Russia shows a willingness to give considerably more in return than...