Word: complainingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montana, he had done little plugging of candidates). But there was no doubt that he had done himself a lot of good. He reduces the issues, said the New York Times correspondent admiringly, "to town-size so any dirt farmer can understand them." There were no Republicans aboard to complain "Yes, but how about the deficit?" There were no Southern Democrats to point out how little he had accomplished. There had been only Harry Truman, the salesman of good intentions and the man with the common touch, wearing the aura of the presidency, doing what he did best-meeting...
...lost $700 and the owners had to dip into personal capital to meet the employees' payroll. And Monday the station was obliged by necessity to abandon all attempts at compromise between esthetic and economic considerations. Now it plays almost exclusively "disc jockey" music. Only 350 listeners called up to complain of the change, which means a total listening audience of 7,000 by management figuring. No advertisers have cancelled since Monday, and one of them, a television dealer, reported a 500 percent increase in business...
Unlike New York's successful WQXR, WBMS could never get the big accounts that demand a large audience. And people who listen to classical music by and large refuse to patronize the small stores that do advertise on WBMS. Instead, these people complain about the interrupted light classics and Pops, and the Italian hours. Those who couldn't be bothered complaining stopped listening...
Voice staffers often complain that "policy guidance" from Washington is slow, that they lack the funds to do a first-rate job (in 1950 the U.S. State Department spent less than a third of its meager propaganda budget of $34 million on broadcasting). Actually, what the Voice needs above all is not more money or more memoranda from Washington, but simply better writing, sharper thinking, and plenty of blue pencils to cut the dull stretches which still pervade too many of its programs...
...Faculty, is rooted in the belief that it is administratively easier to leave people unregulated than to try to regulate, and by regulating assume responsibility for all their activities. Thus there is no attempt at Harvard to restrict the utterances and affiliations of Faculty members. If anyone complains to the University about the activities of a Faculty member, the University simply points out that it is not supervising the Faculty and hence any complaints must be taken directly to the Faculty member in question. In the past, this same policy has proved administratively soundest in dealing with undergraduate activities...