Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unchanged," says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford. "Students are by and large not interested in the larger questions of the day in this country." Chatham's President Eddy frets that "youth is beginning to retreat behind excellence" to what he calls "the permanent alibi of scholarship." Critics also sourly complain that today's collegians are "totally defeatist" and "so damn sober." "There's a material sophistication that is not matched by a spiritual one," says one California professor, adding, "They all seem to have read a great deal-hastily...
...ruling. Under the U.N. Charter, member nations are obligated to comply with the court's decisions-and there is no appeal from them. The Charter also provides that if a nation "fails to perform" its obligations under a World Court decision, the other nation involved can complain to the Security Council, which may "decide upon measures to be taken to give effect to the judgment." Only on one occasion has a nation failed to abide by a ruling: after the court's very first decision, Albania refused to pay an indemnity that the court awarded to Britain...
...Hunter's difficulties lie deeper than the subway tubes. Faculty and students agree that the college's entire structure needs overhauling. They complain about the heavy general education requirements, for the battery of compulsory courses includes art, music and physical education. By requiring a minor as well as a major field, Hunter makes flexible programming extraordinarily difficult...
Whatever the students' view of education, faculty members praise their industry. Many teachers complain, however, that while the girls shine in memory work they seldom have independent views. "I have never heard anyone argue," one professor remarked. And students in lower-level courses rarely volunteer information. "Do you have any comments on de Tocqueville's views? . . . Well, what impressed you in the book? . . . I know you've read the book, haven't you? . . . You're all alive, aren't you a desperate teacher said...
...complain of only a single thing: the production was so good that the weakness in the play itself shone out crystal clear...