Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once we get to a point where we deprive any of our people of those, for whatever reason, then we cannot justify ourselves . . . and we cannot complain about what happens to us." The jury took just over an hour to decide: "Not guilty." A juror later explained: "If we hadn't stopped to drink pop, it wouldn't have taken that long." When the verdict came in, Prosecutor Chatham stared across the courtroom...
...total investment for crop buying and loans is now a staggering $7 billion, a full $1 billion more than last year, even though the Government disposed of $1.3 billion worth of surplus products at a net loss of $800 million in 1955. Yet despite such vast spending, U.S. farmers complain that they are worse off than before...
Unequal Equality. Finance Minister Ichimada has decided to cancel the favorable tax deal given foreigners since 1951, make everyone pay the same stiff tax as Japanese. While that sounds fair, U.S. businessmen in Japan complain bitterly that the treatment they get is far from equal. Though many Japanese businessmen make big salaries, ride around in Cadillacs and spend freely, only a handful (400 in 1954) declare salaries as high as $15,000 a year. An executive in a big firm may declare a weekly salary of $100-and pay taxes on it. But his salary is only the beginning...
Homer's epic story has been greatly shortened and considerably amended by a battery of writers (Ben Hecht and Irwin Shaw plus three Italians and a Briton). But the Odyssey has been tampered with before and suffered no appreciable damage. Purists will find cause to complain in the sprucing up of Ulysses' character; he emerges less a calculating Greek warrior than an upstanding cowboy hero outfitted with chiton instead of chaps, sandals instead of saddlebags...
...than any kind of 'permanent' sculpture"), but his take-off point is the human emotion. His Primordial Figure (see cut) is a kind of family totem, with the outline of a wasp-waisted male figure with hands upraised superimposed on a skirted female figure. To critics who complain that his finished work looks more like aerial rigging and radar antennas than sculpture, Lippold replies: "Our faith is in space, energy and communications, not in pyramids and cathedrals...