Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kishi's diehard opponents protest that the treaty revision commits Japan to support all U.S. moves in the Pacific and may therefore "attract the lightning" of a Communist H-bomb attack. There are U.S. reservations about the treaty as well; many Pentagon staff officers complain that it gives Japan what amounts to a veto over the movement of U.S. troops on the perimeter of the Asian mainland...
...long afternoons of penurious idleness, the twilight of great houses, are evocatively done. But many readers may wish that the novel dealt more fully with swashbuckling brother Karli, who at least attempts to fight his way out of stagnation, and less with Sister Milli, who does little except to complain about those millstones...
...musical pundit of the Saturday Review, added his share to the heroine-worship of Nilsson, now the fashion among New York critics, by pointing out her superb acting and imposing stage deportment. All in all, one can find few flaws in her tempestuous, queenly Isolde. Though one might complain about her occasional tendency to sing sharp, the fact remains that the New York critics are right, that her debut at the Met constituted a musical event of the first rank...
...sent to fix. For some plant areas, everything operates by word of mouth. In others red tape is so thick that the head of a subdepartment must clear everything he does with his department chief. Martin's men at Cape Canaveral are as good as any. Yet they complain of silly rules that forbid coffee or Coke breaks (one Denver scientist was recently dismissed for drinking Coke from a Thermos at his desk). Ten topnotch engineers of Martin's missile-test group recently went looking for new jobs as a group because, as one engineer said...