Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another questioner suggested that Breeden's complaint was really with the housing situation. Breeden answered that "the housing situation is at least in part a result of people growing up and going to do facts segregated schools...
...always been as natural and universal as eating and drinking, in recent years sleeping has become one of the most talked-of and sought-after boons of life. For many people it seems to be one of the most elusive. From breakfast to bedtime, modern man echoes a recurrent complaint: "It's so much harder to get to sleep, and to stay asleep, than it was in the old days." There is indeed much more to stay awake for. Electricity makes it possible to read through half the night without straining the eyes and without getting up to trim...
Though sleeplessness, usually dignified by its Latin (and medical) name, insomnia, is now an even commoner complaint than the common cold, few doctors recognize it as a disorder. Lack of sleep, they say, is self-curing, and no one ever died of it. The complaint, "I tossed and turned all night and didn't sleep a wink," is a myth. (Dr. Kleitman has heard it from a man who had just been observed sleeping soundly for seven hours.) The most that these hard-headed doctors will concede is that anxiety about not getting to sleep is itself upsetting...
...only complaint could be that the singers' words could not be understood most of the time, even though they were English; unless one knew beforehand, it would have been hard to learn what was going...
...more typical complaint was that such matters do not belong in TIME. We believe that TIME must reflect existence as it really is. Our cover painting was indeed provocative, to match a provocative subject. We could have chosen an abstract symbol or a work by a long-dead master; but TIME was interested not in symbolism but in reality, not in the past but in the present. And so with the story itself. The majority of our readers seem to have appreciated the usefulness of bringing together in one article the evidence of the present crisis in values, which threatens...