Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intelligence collected by the motorcycle scouts has led to several U.S. operations: recently they discovered a cache containing 27 rockets. Since the Communists have yet to shoot at them (though startled government soldiers did once by mistake), the cyclists' biggest complaint to date is entirely unmilitary. The job, they say, is too hard on the seats of their pants...
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth. This frenzied monologue by a sex-obsessed Jewish bachelor on a psychiatrist's couch becomes a comic novel about the absurdly painful wounds created by guilt and puritanism...
FICTION 1. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (1 last week...
Tobacco men who are pained by such advertisements can blame one man. He is John F. Banzhaf III, the 28-year-old lawyer who, almost singlehanded, is responsible for all the free air time given to the antismoking messages. It was Banzhafs "citizen's complaint" to the FCC about cigarette ads that prompted the commission to dust off the fairness doctrine. Banzhaf had almost idly come across that "little loophole," as he calls it, while working at a Manhattan law firm. He was astonished at the response from the FCC, which ordered broadcasters to make room for antismoking...
Rain was beating down on the skylight. The smell of grass drifted up and down the stairway. The light on the landing was burning, but the man said it had taken eight weeks get it replaced. Action on a complaint of roaches had taken less time--a month and a half. "I think it helped. We haven't had so many lately...