Word: complaints
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FICTION 1. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (1 last week...
...college have little interest, ability, and use for what constitutes a college education. They would be better off with a high level vocational education which is closely linked to a work program which gives scope to; their needs for physical activity and visible, tangible achievement. The complaint of many of these students is that nobody needs them. They feel parasites of society, and hence come to hate a society which they think makes them feel this...
...example of the kinds of grievances which the Committee seeks, Heimert said, might be a complaint "that an officer of the University, by his actions or neglect, contributed to the coming of the crisis or to its intensity." The Committee is looking for specific statements about how the crisis may have been averted, he added...
...Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (1 last week...
WHILE at work, firefighters often develop a cynical attitude toward their job, even when the fire at hand is too dangerous to allow goofing off. They claim that their leaders often use poor judgment in deploying them to build fire lines. But besides this sort of complaint, which is, after all, common to other manual laborers, there is a deeper sense of futility among firefighters. They are flown to some corner of the wilderness and told to work long hours and risk their lives to save a few trees that no one will probably see for decades to come, except...