Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hyman Bloom is as poetic as Koerner is deliberately prosaic; he seems to echo the horror-logged, death-haunted work of Edgar Allan Poe. Bloom's Slaughtered Animal (overleaf), part of a retrospective exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, led one dowager to complain that "When I want raw meat, I'll send my chauffeur to the butcher...
...side largely by indoctrinated press gangs and on the other largely by courageous mercenaries: the heavily German Foreign Legion, the Algerians, Moroccans and other Africans. Others say that the politicians are making a good thing out of it and getting their money out of the country. They complain that one can eat well in serene Saigon (and you can, for the cuisine is French) while ignoring the few at the end of the line who are laying their lives on the line. In the dance halls, the local girls sit in a row, dressed in colored tunics slit high...
Tower-struck freshmen will still complain about the building's squat, bulging appearance. But Latin-chalked facades do not an outhouse make, while big rooms and closeness seem to insure a satisfied full house. With a system of assignment to Claverly as indiscriminate as assignment to an A or F entry, the Hall should continue to serve its useful, respected purpose. There is nothing radical in a revolution that can achieve such ends...
...victims complain about their large phone bills, the phone company may at times make adjustments, sometimes up to fifty percent of the overcharge, depending on "how honest the phone company thinks the complainants...
Fats Waller First Editions (Joe Sullivan, piano; Epic LP). Eight unpublished Waller compositions, from blue moods to impudent bounces, played by one of Chicago's alltime greats, Joe Sullivan. No Waller fan will complain if most of the longs sound like his familiar Honeysuckle Rose or Ain't Misbehavin...