Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inability to distinguish fantasy from reality. The Rev. A. Cecil Williams of San Francisco's Glide Memorial Methodist Church uses movies and folk-rock songs as themes. Last year he related one sermon to a line from Fellini's La Strada-Anthony Quinn's complaint, "All I want is to be left alone." Williams then argued that this gruff individualism denies a basic fact of life, which is that men must be together...
When Briggs and Briggs promised not to sell the recording, a Cambridge court judge denied a complaint against the store. Technically this decision involved no other stores. And before the store could be prosecuted for selling the record to a minor, a hearing would have to be held to determine the legal status of the record...
...from Topeka" is more the creation of his willful imagination than a reality. To achieve color and unity in his perceptions, Finley tends to latch on to a misconception or simple trait and then create an entire character around it. "Finley does not talk with you," runs the frequent complaint, "he talks at you." Says one senior. "I hope I never lose the capacity to listen...
...BGMA prepared to negotiate for a new contract with Harvard, some members articulated a feeling that has been growing stronger and stronger in the BGMA for the last few years. Essentially, their argument was that the BGMA could no longer get very good contracts from the University. The complaint was not directed at the BGMA's officers. Indeed, Robert S. Richardson, president of the BGMA, has been one of the chief exponents of the view. The complaint that the BGMA was growing less effective reflected changing times...
Some workers are suspicious of the whole labor movement. "I was in a union for ten years at another job and all it did was take my money" is a typical complaint. But SDS has an answer for these workers: "We agree with you about the American labor movement and we hope to form a different kind of union here...