Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state, or more precisely, a trade union state. Even this is not quite precise in contemporary U.S. terms. Though the sun never sets over the lands to which their sway extends, the Labor Party looks inward. The fate of Burma disturbs it less than a housewife's complaint, and the housewife will go unheard if a shop steward is discontented...
...Louis, 38 top-ranking Episcopalians took their church's official leadership to task for obstructing church unity rather than promoting it. Target of the document was a "Statement of Faith & Order" recently prepared by the Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity. Their chief complaint: the commission's statement does nothing to clear up the church's ancient ambiguity on the subject of the "historic episcopate," Episcopalian equivalent of the Roman Catholic doctrine of Apostolic Succession (an unbroken line of bishops consecrated by bishops traced directly back to St. Peter...
...argument offered against the substitution of papers for tests is that a better writer will get an undeservedly high grade. This same complaint is applicable to examinations, however, and perhaps even more justly. The papers by themselves, moreover, help men learn how to organize their thoughts on paper. The General Education report made one of its less renowned but important points on this account, urging short essays on assigned topics as a means toward fulfilling the important points on this account, urging short essays on assigned topics as a means toward fulfilling the important educational function of teaching people...
...comprise the graduating class at the far-flung University of California. Their complaint is that their graduation date has been moved from June 19 to June 12, and the latter date happens to be right smack in the middle of their final exam period...
...most familiar complaint of modern composers is that they don't get a hearing. On that score, Igor Stravinsky has little to complain of. In the past month, packed houses in Manhattan had heard everything from his popular Petrouchka (1911) to his dusty-dry Symphony in C (1940). Even his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex had been uncovered for the first time in 17 years. Bobbing, crouching and flapping his arms like a grotesque little bird, Composer Stravinsky had conducted several performances of his music himself...