Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rehearsed after a WEst Coast run of two months, the company gambols through Kismot with good-natured case. Even the gauze-pantalooned houris in the chorus seem pleasantly aware of how silly they look and make the bad moments of the show so hilariously poor that you can't complain. On the other hand, thanks primarily to Alfred Drake, Kismet's good moments are very enjoyable indeed. In Otis Skinner's old role of the resourceful beggar who marries off his daughter to the Caliph, drake is even more personable than he was in Kiss Me Kate. Drake is onstage...
...weekly Christian duty, but the active Christian layman knows that church attendance must be only the beginning of his week's witness. His constant problem: how to serve the church well without having 1) his business associates look askance at him as a do-gooder, or 2) clergymen complain that he is trying to take over their ministry...
...Donnell nevertheless wrote that "Ike's relations with the press . . . are not as effective as those of Roosevelt or ... Harry Truman [and] the relations of Ike's Cabinet members with the [press] are bad-very bad." Added Fair Dealing Columnist Marquis Childs: "Many working newspapermen [complain] that the flow of news has been greatly reduced in recent months . . . Whether [the new order] will achieve the desired end is open to question . . . The negative step of removing restrictions [on classified information] is not enough. There must be a positive incentive for giving out information...
...happy about the role of the Fifth Amendment in recent investigations into Communist activity in the United States. Those who believe that the domestic Communist conspiracy is presently so dangerous that its exposure is America's greatest problem complain that the Amendment keeps them from extracting vital information. Those who think that controlling the investigations is the top problem in the country are just as discontented because people who use the Amendment often face social punishment as onerous as any jail sentence. The great bulk of American opinion lies between these two extremes. It is confused about the existence...
...students did complain about their early freshman orientation procedures--about half asked that they be repeated in the freshman and sophomore year. At the same time they called for better activities over the weekend. The student questionnaire offered a list of suggestions--and the highest response went to "really good place to dance informally," either Friday or Saturday nights. The girls also asked for more weekend concerts, more rooms with phonographs and good records, and more movies on campus...