Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austria is utterly tired of having to ask. beg or haggle for every dollar and over the acceptance of every refugee." His complaint is directed chiefly against the U.S., which, if it took in as many refugees in proportion to its size and wealth as has Austria, would have to "admit 500,000 Hungarian refugees instead of 24,000." Most of the 65,000 still in Austria refuse to go on to other European countries, he added, for fear "they will lose their chance of being admitted to the U.S.": under present U.S. law, Hungarians are no longer regarded...
Although Adlai Stevenson's recent complaint of the effect of mass media on the American electorate during the past Presidential campaign has a tinge of sour grapes to it, it is worth studying. He fears that television and radio exert an unhealthy influence on American thinking, in that they tend to reduce the People to a mass, prone to the fallacies of a collective mind...
Another big complaint is that airlines and trucks use public airfields and highways for a relatively small fee, while railroads must pay steep taxes and maintenance for every mile of rail. New Jersey alone collects an average $9,511 annually for every mile of line; the 13 railroads serving New Jersey pay $1.67 in state taxes for every $1 worth of business they pick up in the state. On top of that, railroadmen point to other special taxes, e.g., a federal railroad retirement tax, figured at of employee earnings v. only 2% for other industries, plus...
...that ICC is slow and hesitant to let railroads boost rates enough to cover inflated costs. Though U.S. roads have won 13 freight-rate increases since 1946, the hikes have only increased revenues per ton-mile some 45%, while wages jumped 130%, and material costs rose 80%. Another complaint is that ICC will not let the roads cut rates on products they can carry cheaper than competing trucks, thus tends to allocate markets and stifle free competition...
...major complaint with the handling of the material is in its language. Here are village peasants showing us universal problems. They must talk significantly, but they also must talk simply. Alonso seems to have used the vocabulary of an Eliot House cocktail party. "Legality is only superfluous," Fernando believes. Or "the going is uncontrollably downhill," or "eternity would be consciousness in a vacuum," or "perhaps love succeeded in vaccinating your dignity." These phrases become particularly sticky in love scenes between Gloria and Fernando, making them appear to be immature remembrances of a sophomore's love quarrels...