Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public speakers are often unhappy about the way newspapers report their talks. They complain that the papers tend to play up one striking headline point or phrase, play down or even ignore the main theme. The usual answer of newsmen is that speakers themselves don't know what is news, often bury the noteworthy parts. But last week a public speaker who is also an able editor took issue, in a letter to the New York Times, with the way the paper had reported two recent talks, and thereby read newsmen a lesson on their editorial responsibilities...
Mice & Monopoly. As an automaker, Fiat specializes in small, low-horsepower models that can negotiate Europe's twisting roads and give good mileage on its expensive gasoline. Most Italians, however, find them too high-priced, complain that Fiat could afford to cut prices. They cite the fact that in Paris, where there is competition, the new Fiat "1100" sells for $235 less than in Italy. Even the Italians who can afford Fiat's two bestselling cars, the Topolino (Little Mouse) at $1,146, and the "1100" at $1,608, must be prepared to put down a $320 deposit...
...collection has proven even thornier. In trying to place the reference works on history, language, and geography in a logical order, the staff could not place the countries in alphabetical order, because many of the books deal with several countries. Instead they arranged them according to location. Cartographers often complain about the difficulties of representing the globe in two dimensions, but the librarians really ran into difficulty in the one-dimensional shelf projection when they came to the Balkans: they had to make the rather difficult decision between proceeding to Africa or Asia...
...requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and unrelenting will." One of his pet peeves was his own quartermaster corps. Quartermasters, he said, "tend to work by theory and base all their calculations on precedent, being satisfied if their performance comes up to standard . . . [They] complain at every difficulty, instead of ... using their powers of improvisation, which indeed are frequently...
Gallerygoers find Gabo's work interesting, even brilliant, but many complain that it is artificial. Gabo insists that his art is not at all artificial. He tries to bring out basic shapes that are hidden in nature's creations, and perhaps seen only by his eye. Living quietly in Connecticut, he gets his ideas from the scene around him. Says he: "I see them in a torn piece of cloud, a green thicket, or the trail of smoke from a passing train." What is Sculptor Gabo trying to say with his strange shapes? "I am trying to tell...