Word: complains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Publishers often complain that the South writes more books than it buys. All over the U. S., static small-town life is the frustration and inspiration of bright young talents. But the South's small towns inspire the most feverish talents of all. Led by William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Southerners write with brilliant intensity, but their subject matter runs to horror-sexual, psychological or economic...
...Front, the Klu Klux Klan, and the Bund a chance to strike a blow for the swastika here at home. These All Americans with their dupes and colleagues oppose further immigration on the grounds that those already here have increased unemployment. They mutter about our own racial purity and complain that this is a Jewish problem-that Palestine and Madagascar are good enough for the refuse of the Fuhrer...
...grads sometimes complain, sometimes boast that they have forgotten most of what they learned in college. A few years ago the Carnegie Foundation decided to check up on how much a college graduate forgets. It had already tested the learning of thousands of Pennsylvania college students, first as sophomores, then as seniors. Five years after their graduation, the Foundation rounded up a group of these former students, gave them the same test again. This week, in the Foundation's annual report, Researcher William S. Learned reported his findings...
...Naunton Wayne), who interrupt the plot's progress at the tensest moments to discuss devastating trivialities. This time they are upset about the declaration of war because it may make it impossible for them to retrieve their golf clubs which they left in Berlin. Steel-shafted clubs, they complain, will be hard to get in England with the Government hogging all the decent metal...
...time Director McKinney got ready to move his show on to Minneapolis, 27,380 people had gone to see it, and polls had shown that a majority of visiting moppets liked Jiminy Cricket best of all Disney characters. Captious critics, looking at the Disney show as art, could still complain that Disney is more successful with mice, ducks, dwarfs and hobgoblins than with human characters. But they had to admit that in his first 17 years Disney had never stood still or done the same thing twice. Today, with world-famed composers and artists clamoring to work at its Burbank...