Word: complaints
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Richard Monette, as Moliere, played his part with authority, and as the central character he set the necessary fast pace. His imitation of an overdone performance of Lear was very amusing; my only complaint is that he seemed to have too much energy. Perhaps this is the way Miss Fortson invisioned Moliere, but I wished Monette could have gotten more convincingly exasperated, or spoken more naturally. He sounded like he was acting, and this is a major fault, since in the play Moliere makes fun of unnatural actors...
Editorial writers and columnists across the nation echoed a familiar complaint: the Supreme Court, they said, was being soft on Communists. By a vote of 6 to 3 last week, the court ruled that Congress had exceeded its power in forbidding passports to all U.S. Communists. Disturbing as their decision was to many Americans, the majority of the Justices were not ruling on the nature of Communism or its threat to the U.S.; what bothered them was one single paragraph in the Subversive Activities Control...
...ventures. Last week's case in point involved the Penn-Olin Chemical Co., set up on a fifty-fifty basis by Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. and Pennsalt Chemicals in 1960 to make sodium chlorate for use in the pulp and paper industry. A lower court had dismissed a complaint against the creation of the firm. But the Supreme Court said, in effect, that companies cannot enter joint ventures if there was a "reasonable probability" that either would have gone into the line, of business alone. While the case was sent back to the lower court for new evidence...
...Fair. Last week newspapers around the U.S. blossomed with stories about angry Fair exhibitors who charged that they were being taken to the cleaners by their cleaners. Some of them growled about exorbitant charges for such simple chores as unstopping a sink and emptying garbage. The most general complaint was against the high cost of temporary help, called in to perform specialized, emergency jobs. To get a carpenter on a short-term, hourly basis, exhibitors have to pay $11.51 an hour-and double time of $23.02 after...
Judge Desmond's complaint is buttressed by some compelling testimony. In the current Atlantic, Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York writes that in his busy jurisdiction bail bondsmen steer paying defendants to "a lawyer who will kick back to them a substantial part of the fee." Often this "lazy and incompetent" court hanger-on falsely claims that he can "fix someone" for a higher fee. Since he "seldom knows any law or reads any cases," his arguments in court are "so transparently hollow that it is not easy for most juries...