Word: complains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Distances in Russia are vast, and planes are the dominant mode of travel for tourists, who complain that many of them seem to be converted bombers, with inadequate air conditioning and pressurizing-and that the pilots bank too sharply. Where the cities are close together, a train ride is worth it for the experience of traveling in a deluxe "soft seat" car, at the end of which there is always a samovar of hot tea warmed by live coals...
...parody Gluck's opera Orfeo et Euridice, to spoof solemn antiquity worship, and to satirize the manners and morals of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. His fiddle-playing Orpheus is glad to be rid of the unfaithful Eurydice until a character called Public Opinion forces him to complain to Jupiter. The gods, bored with ambrosia and the Olympian idyl, squabble rebelliously; and Jupiter, when he descends to the underworld to investigate Orpheus' complaint, is so taken with Eurydice that he arranges the plot in order to take her away from Orpheus...
...keen eye and the sense of humor of a determined pixie. Dunster men remember her appearing before them in the dinner line and solemnly slipping some silverware into their hands for the dates they had for gotten to provide for. On one occasion she overheard some House residents complain about the difficulties of watching the pretty girls in the line on weekend nights and returned to present them with a mirror...
Marcos' job is made no easier by a wave of nationalism that is sweeping the islands. Unfortunately, much of the feeling is anti-American and thus anti-Marcos, since he is openly on the U.S. side. Many Filipinos complain that he should steer a more neutral course. His rivals in Congress, for example, are badgering him for sending two battalions of engineers to Viet Nam, threaten to force him to recall them. To show his independence, Marcos has publicly demanded the return of the U.S. Navy's Sangley Point Air Station to Philippine control. Though Washington would like...
...from being assigned to a line command. One reason, of course, is that too many potential Negro officers lack the educational requirements for command. In fact, Captain James R. Randall, 34, a Negro psychiatrist for the 4th Infantry Division, though agreeing that many Negro officers and enlisted men complain of discrimination, says: "Many times I have found that the complaint because of race is not really that, but that race has been used by some as a crutch." To the argument that Negroes are too poor for college deferments must be added the fact that they like the military enough...