Word: complains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Women living in the Yard often complain about the ratio too--it's hard to get to know other women when most of the people around you are male. But the Yard's size--there are over 1200 people in it, about three-fourths of the freshman class--makes it easy to get to know people just by sitting with them at the Union or playing frisbee on the lawn, and there are always the mixers and the waterfights if you get desparate for company...
...have decided that you are unhappy with your room or roommate, now is the time to start your complaining if you expect to get anywhere. When you complain loud and long enough about anything around here, you eventually get your way. If you run into a recalcitrant administrator, call him at home at 4 a.m. Harvard is a can-do place. Never take no for an answer...
President Bok is known to complain from time to time about how administrative his job has become. It's understandable: his predecessors might have been simply educators, but Bok has to be head of a huge, labor-intensive, recession-plagued, hard-to-operate corporation. To make his job easier, Bok and his lieutenants have made Harvard a little more cost-effective, something that runs against the grain of the place and has stirred up some grumbling about how Bok's nothing but a bureaucrat. In any event, Harvard is huge, with a $200 million annual operating budget spread over hundreds...
Thus Warren's central paradox: U.S. writers have been the bearers "of bad tidings of great joy." The joy comes from their very freedom to complain, and their message, no matter how resentful, is really "an adventure in the celebration of life." A work of art is more than just an independent image. It is an assertion of the artist's own liberation...
...gloss of a civil liberties controversy. KNTV even found itself reporting the fuss, and aired the beach spot during its news broadcast. It then asked for viewers' opinions. The change of heart was instant: 8 to 1 in the commercial's favor. Some viewers were eager to complain about the ads they thought more offensive, like bad-breath treatments and sinus aids...