Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another point, Thurmond went to the heart of his complaint-namely, that the court's guarantees of defendants' rights sometimes permitted the guilty to go free along with the innocent. "Aren't you after getting the truth?" he demanded. "What difference does it make if there is a lawyer present or not? What difference does it make if you get the truth?" Fortas replied that the difference might be the Constitution. By the time Thurmond got to loyalty oaths, Fortas was beyond surprise. "Do you think," asked the South Carolinian, "that the parent of a child...
City police uncustomarily came on campus and arrested Keel. Several students attest that police manhandled them. Arnsel Collier, in a complaint filed with the FBI said a policeman, "grabbed me by my arms and started kicking me on my hips." Two days later, the other two students were arrested...
Portnoy's Complaint, newest novel by Philip Roth, 35, won't hit the stalls for another seven months, yet about half of its 80,000 words have already been quoted by four national publications. And pretty lively they are too: explicitly detailing Portnoy's super sex life from toilet training through masturbation and on to intercourse, intercourse, intercourse, all told in the form of monologues delivered by a Jewish boy to his psychoanalyst. With that kind of copy and more to come, no wonder Random House has given Roth a $250,000 advance for the book...
...miasma of decaying faiths, whether in Jacobinism or in the church, that leaves the air redolent with cynicism. Even the material world is forbidding. Citizens must seek treatment in hospital buildings that may date from the 17th century, archaic highways are jammed, and telephones do not work- a trivial complaint, perhaps, but symbolic of a more profound lack of communication between groups and generations. "Weary and shrewish" Paris, the heart of the country, has become, "beyond question, the most exhausting capital in the world...
...That complaint is never made about Fortas' opinions, which Yale's Fred Rodell compares with those of Brandeis', one of the court's greatest craftsmen. "All Brandeis' briefs were beautiful," says Rodell. "There were no holes in them, no questions left unanswered, nothing missing. He could foresee every possible question...