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Word: complainers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Battlefield Privacy. Some viewers complain of a credibility gap. Explains Mrs. Valetta Wheeler of Detroit, who has two brothers in Viet Nam: "What they say on TV and what my brothers say in their letters is not the same." Others, like Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, bemoan TV's "one-sided" war coverage in which the camera focuses almost exclusively on U.S. troops. American viewers, of course, never see the North Vietnamese or Viet Cong in battle, let alone committing brutalities. Indeed, when the Communists do release films to Western TV, they invariably show little more than heroic civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: NEWSCASTING: Mortars at Martini Time | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

Some students complain of the lack of color and cozy spots. They feel that Andrews' attempt to provide common spaces to meet new people has worked very well, but there just isn't any place in the building where one could be alone with a few close friends...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Andrews--genius of Scarborough is coming to Harvard | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...aimed to dismantle the Office of Economic Opportunity altogether. The plan was to carve up the program's appendages among existing Government departments while, at the same time, substantially reducing overall antipoverty appropriations. The scheme seemed persuasive to many conservative Southerners and normally liberal big-city Democrats, who complain that local politicians do not have enough control over many OEO projects in their areas. After last summer's riots, there was bitter talk about not rewarding rioters, and the plan's success seemed to be inevitable. Few on Capitol Hill could challenge the self-confident assertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Biting the Bloodhounds | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...syndicate of encyclopedias for an audience of International Business Machines." He could dismiss the pedantries of his associates with a single slash. He ends an essay on Whitman: "I have said so little about Whitman's faults because they are so plain: baby critics who have barely learned to complain of the lack of ambiguity in Peter Rabbit can tell you what is wrong with Leaves of Grass...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: The Poet and Critic in Retrospect | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

...training program is the main focus of Alliance's present efforts. Many Roxbury youths are not eligible for the programs run by private industry. They complain that job programs of ABCD (Boston's poverty program) channel trainees into non-profit organizations, where they have little chance for future advancement...

Author: By Robert C. Pozen, | Title: Two Kinds of Ghetto Organizing | 11/16/1967 | See Source »

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