Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort?and his lawyer's?is to get the case thrown out on some legal technicality, and he often succeeds. In a San Francisco police squad room, the cops toss darts at an unusual board. Its rings are labeled: Investigate further, Admonish, Cite, and the bull's-eye is Complaint withdrawn. Police Lieut. George Rosko sums up the whole juvenile process: "It fosters the kid's belief that he can beat the system. He goes through the court, comes back to the neighborhood, and he's a hero...
...part of its 50th Anniversary celebration, Harvard's own Fogg is displaying 150 of its rarest paintings, including works by Rembrandt, Botticelli, Monet, Degas, Picasso and Pollock. The chief complaint of Fogg officials is that they don't have enough gallery space to accommodate their ever-growing collection of acquisitions and their plight is illustrated in this slightly cluttered exhibition. But too much of a good thing hasn't proved fatal to any Fogg-goers lately, so pause on Quincy St. and gaze for a while at the Fogg's proudest possessions. Summer hours...
...superficiality of Trilling's essays may also be the result of her insistance that cultural phenomena are separable from political and economic trends. Her major complaint against what she refers to as "the murderous Soviet regime," for instance, is that it stultifies culture. She finds the Columbia students much worse than the society that engendered their alienation because they threaten an institution of culture; she ignores the war that their society was involved in at the time. By looking at cultural phenomena in a vacuum, she can ignore the outside events that shaped them--the flaws in her institutions...
...brokers who service them. Even the firms that count themselves aggrieved may be wooing away employees from rivals. Only a month before its Fresno office defected, Bateman Eichler hired five members of the trading department of Mitchum, Jones & Templeton Inc. And Loeb Rhoades, in response to the Bache complaint, asserted that Bache two years ago had lured away its entire foreign institutional department. Loeb Rhoades did not sue, says a spokesman, because "those are the breaks of the game...
Isaac subsequently filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in March 1976 charging that the University had refused to give him tenure on the basis of race and nationality. "I decided to go to court because of the broken promises, the irregular procedures and the deep-seated discriminatory manner in which the department and I have been treated," Isaac says, adding he believes that he was denied tenure because of a "behind-the-scenes attempt to not hire people wholly within the department." Isaac says that he does not object to the concept of joint tenure appointments...