Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are welcome here; there has been far too little frank discussion of important topics in colleges and in the nation generally in the past few years. If they wish to spread their ideas by personal contact based on voluntary introductions, that is their own business and nobody can complain. But we feel that the organized shock tactics in which last weekend's visitors indulged were inappropriate to a relatively mature and intellectual community such as Harvard. We hope that, in the interests of good order and simple politeness, they will exercise more discretion if and when they choose...
...they were unhappy. The machines had been set up so as to deprive the men of virtually all human contact with one another; lonely, they fell into melancholy and hypochondria. Mayo prescribed four daily rest periods when the workers could relax, brought in a nurse to whom they could complain. The change wrought by these two relatively minor steps was startling. Turnover immediately diminished; production for the first time reached the established quotas...
...current editorials calmly discuss recent primary results--in terms of a voter rebellion against the Democratic New Deal and Casaristic elements in the groundswell for Eisenhower. Other editorials criticize President Truman for allowing his loyalty to General Marshall to overide professions of sympathy with Chiang Kai-shek, and complain that the current Wage Stabilization program has union leanings...
...Wholesome Note. After 18 years, Capp has finally bowed to true love because he has become worried over the heavy load of satire his strip carries. Readers have begun to complain that it is "un-American," and he thinks a marriage, even a $1.35 (new inflation price) Dogpatch one, will introduce a wholesome note. Says Capp: "When I kidded advertising, people wrote, 'Don't you know advertising is the backbone of America?' This attitude made me uneasy about kidding America . . . The only thing for me to do seemed to be to change completely, hoping that in another...
Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry '12 would welcome intellectuals, for the House had no one among last year's Junior Eight nor this fall's Senior Sixteen in Phi Beta Kappa. Members of the House are divided as to the tutorial staff--some complain that the tutors are snobbish and aloof, while others find them provocative conversationalists...