Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think the whole Berlioz revival owes a lot to high fidelity. His orchestration always sounded muddy on old sets." Listeners are also developing their tastes: a fluff may be forgiven in a concert hall, but hearing it again and again on a record may lead the buyer to complain. Cracks Recordmaker Peter Bartok (son of the late great Béla): "The listener is a damn nuisance." Nuisance or not, today's listener is part of a cultural revolution. The sound that comes through his speakers is not living music; its impact is no longer assisted by the sight...
...involves scores, often thousands, of people. Less than a century ago, a decision could be locked in the breast of one man, e.g., in planning his Valley campaign, Stonewall Jackson withheld nearly all information even from his top subordinate, Major General Richard S. Ewell, who was heard to complain, "I tell you, sir, he's as crazy as a March hare. He has gone away; I don't know where." Today Jackson would have to parcel out his secret among hundreds of helpers, most of them unknown to him, and some of them untested by their careers...
Watson pointed out that if local theatres had wished to complain, they could have made it "very nasty at the State House" for the University under former policies...
...huge pistols), his chosen companions remained the ostlers, potboys, horse jockeys, moneylenders, pawnbrokers, punks and pugilists who often served as his models. They shared Morland's love of gin and practical jokes. Once Morland stuffed the chairs of a public house with mackerel, returned with his cronies to complain to the frantic landlord of the frightful stench...
...expected to do anything about. And since no one will ask our permission before using it, we can regard it with the polite calm with which we contemplate death in general: one doesn't expect to avoid it indefinitely and can't decently complain when it catches up with...