Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first complaint about this weekend's demonstrators is that they are "draft dodgers." It is unfair to level this criticism at all the demonstrators, just as it would be naive to assume that those who did not march would cheerfully accept a military future. It is true that several demonstrators may have breached specific draft laws. One protestor publicly burned his draft card, and it has been alleged (and denied) that Berkeley Students for a Democratic Society circulated literature urging illegal methods of draft evasion. For these crimes there are stiff penalties, and objectors who resort to civil disobedience must...
...basic complaint against opera is that it does not reflect reality, that "people do not converse in such a way"-that in real life, people do not sing. As a matter of fact, they sing more often than they recite Shakespearean verse or the kind of phony political speeches with which they harangue each other in the supposedly real theater of Arthur Miller. Of course people do not speak in asides ("I'll have her yet!"), which were accepted on the stage for decades, nor in a Joycean stream of consciousness, which is accepted today. People do not mumble...
...telling complaint about opera has to do with poor acting and staging. Mark Twain wrote that "there isn't often anything in a Wagner opera that one could call by such a violent name as acting. As a rule, all you would see would be a couple of people, one of them standing still, the other catching flies." And Critic Ernest Newman said of the typical soprano: "She looks like an ox; she moves like a cart horse; she stands like a haystack...
...more significant. The process starts with the 15-member Commission on Human Rights, which conducts the first investigation into whether a government has, in fact, breached the convention. Only at this level do individuals appear in person. Set up in 1955, the commission has thus far handled 2,600 complaints, about half from people in prison. By finding a complaint "admissible," as it has in 110 cases, the commission may prod the complainant's government into action. If publicity fails, the commission tries to negotiate a "friendly solution," always seeks to avoid litigation...
...civil rights leaders decried the release of the $30 million as "a shameless display of power." The Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, the Chicago civil rights group that made the original charge of de facto segregation in July, triggering the HEW's investigation, announced that it will file a complaint with the State Superintent of Public Instruction and with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to try to stop the use of federal funds