Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Residence Office has frequently encountered students who dislike any type of "dormitory atmosphere" and complain about problems of dorm life such as noise and lack of privacy. The complaints which some students express are irrational and temporary--but by senior year many students are sure that they cannot feel comfortable in a dormitory. In setting up next term's experiment, Radcliffe has recognized the existence of such personal preferences...
Harvard's Harvey Cox, 36, another radical young thinker whose book The Secular City concludes with the idea that Christianity may have to stop talking about God for a while, complains about the writers' imprecise language. "Is it the loss of the experience of God, the loss of the existence of God in Christianity, or the lack of adequate language to express God today?" he asks. The Union Theological Seminary's Daniel Day Williams sums up the inner contradictions of the movement with an aphorism: "There is no God, and Jesus is his only begotten son." Many...
...schools have always been overcrowded. Parents saw that their children weren't getting promoted and that it didn't do any good to complain to the Superintendent about it," she explained later...
...opens. Critics say it is acoustical dud-mushy, strident, dry, opaque, flat, cold. Hall's 136 sound-reflecting "clouds," suspended from ceiling, are tilted, lowered, raised. No help. Diffusion of sound so unbalanced that best vantage point is, ironically, cheapest seat in top balcony. New York Philharmonic musicians complain they cannot hear each other onstage, say hall is glorified $17.7 million pinball machine. Mood of pessimism pervades. Rumors circulate that visiting orchestras are going to boycott splendorous blue-and-gold hall in favor of mellow surroundings of Carnegie Hall. Soloists panic, talk of canceling performances. Hall management says...
...fairness, medical students nearly every-where complain about the immaturity of much of their education. And, probably, Harvard manages to offer the incoming student a more interesting assortment of classmates than do most institutions...