Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surrounded by Russia. He aims to pose the universal question of innocent man put to nothing by guilty authority. His hero is a Jew whose complaint against Gentiles is not that they are not Jews but that they are not Christians. He is called Yakov Bok (a name that suggests scapegoat), a Russian who is a stranger to Russia, who makes himself a stranger to his own Jewish tradition, and who is finally a stranger to everyone but the reader...
...fact is that many members of the U.S. protest movement, which only recently was capable of producing an instant cacophony of complaint in Congress, in churches and on campuses across the land, have begun to lose heart. Last week, for example, when U.S. forces in Viet Nam climbed above the 300,000-man mark, there were no full-page ads, no teach-ins, no placard-studded demonstrations to mark the milestone...
...American prisoners as hostages near factories and villages, Chip Bohlen blew his stack. At a half-hour meeting last week with French Minister of State Louis Joxe, Bohlen protested D'Astier's use of French government transmitters for his "virulent attack." The French shrugged away the complaint, insisting that TV producers were free to present the news as they...
...White Citizens Council, the Ku Klux Klan, and mobs and assassins." When proposed for use in California schools, Land of the Free was denounced from the right as being "unAmerican" and too "internationalist," and from the left for not paying enough attention to Mexican and Chinese-Americans. The prime complaint, says Retired Los Angeles Principal Beulah Quiette, is that the book "does everything to glorify the Negro." Its authors-U.C.L.A.'s John W. Caughey, University of Chicago's John Hope Franklin and Harvard's Ernest R. May-admit they made some bloopers. The text, for example...
...week took place in Chicago's all-but-unplayable Soldier Field. The stage was plant ed on the 10-yd. line. The crowd of 14,220 people curled back and up into the end-zone stands like one big paying claque. Yet there was not a heckle of complaint about the low-fi sound, and plenty of uproarious laughter at even her simplest lines. A whistle whined from the neighboring railway yard. "My God!" she cried. "It's got poifect pitch...