Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, with consummate gall a government announcement claimed that the U.S. had taken "too literally" Sihanouk's recent decision against accepting further U.S. aid; Washington, went the new complaint, immediately stopped all projects in progress instead of letting the Prince decide the cutoff dates himself. Ordering all U.S. military and economic missions out of the country by Jan. 15, Sihanouk threatened: "We will be happy to break off diplomatic relations with the U.S." The State Department replied by ordering U.S. Ambassador Philip Sprouse back to Washington for "consultations...
Western critics have already begun to cool their original ardor for new Soviet verse and lately have begun to grumble that Evtushenko and Voznesensky have neither read T.S. Eliot nor profited by exposure to the likes of William Carlos Williams. The complaint is true, but beside the point. Voznesensky and Evtushenko invite useful comparison not with the sophisticated Western poets of today but with Carl Sandburg singing of the Western plains or the chest-thumping celebrations of Walt Whitman. Like Sandburg, and like the U.S. folk singers who make up rhymes for the freedom riders, the new Soviet poets tend...
...continual complaint in courses in the Humanities is that grading does not allow differences of opinion or interpretation--does not allow for the fact that truth in the humanities is plural. But in the sciences such a criticism is almost comically irrelevant. But it is also the singular character of scientific truth that lies behind what is widely referred to as a "science block...
...reported, was that it talked too much without saying enough new. "I'm getting claustrophobia or a tin ear or something," said one respondent. "If they do mention something I'm interested in, it slides right by me." "The same thing over and over," was the frequent complaint. In contrast, the newspaper reader can follow the path of his own interests, guided but not compelled by headlines and layout...
...surprise to learn that the Overseers' Committee to study Harvard's teaching fellow program has uncovered "a considerable amount of uninspired, inexperienced, and weak teaching." Any one who has read the CRIMSON's Confidential Guide over the years, or talked to undergraduates, knows that poor teaching is the biggest complaint students have about the College...