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While some colleagues found Simon open and willing to listen to suggestions, others complain that he was less than receptive to dissenting ideas. (Walcott was reportedly even more prickly about proposed changes in the book he and Simon had written.) "I guess if you really become insistent on being happy with what's going on, some people are going to think you're difficult," Simon responds. "I don't think so. That's an artist's right." Yet an impending opening can focus the mind, and Simon eventually became convinced that he needed help from an experienced Broadway hand like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Seeking Salvation for the Capeman | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Undergraduates often complain that their professors are not accessible enough. But some faculty members say the problem lies with students, who they say seem uninterested in meeting them...

Author: By Eran A. Mukamel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students, Faculty: Alienated? | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

Since its inception, The Crimson has always played a prominent part in campus political life, both through its editorial arm and occasionally, some complain, in its reporting...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: From Politics to Events: Time Brings Changes in Paper's Focus | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...survive and to prosper, any community needsa newspaper. A community's newspaper will be itsvoice and its conscience: it will prod, it willprotest, it will expose, and it will complain; itwill report, it will explain, and it will givepraise when praise is due. It will notphilosophize, and it will be read. The communitywill support it, and it will keep the communityalive...

Author: By Michael Ryan, EDITED BY THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: The First 100 Years | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

What is a true liberal arts education? As a science major, I often complain that I am leaving with oodles of information that are not useful in the real world and yet have missed out on so many of the topics, theories and names that I should know. Humanities concentrators are closer to receiving a true liberal arts education, yet even they complain that they are leaving with no information to use in the real world--just abstract theories...

Author: By Tanya Dutta, | Title: The Expensive Stepping Stone | 1/23/1998 | See Source »

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