Word: discontentedness
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But one discontented alumnus said, "I don't want my children polluted. I can't quite believe you don't know why (with hippies on your labor force) but narcotics, sex and anarchy tend to distract from study."
A question on the accessibility of Faculty members, however, evoked a surprisingly discontented response. Perhaps remembering their own undergraduate days, over two-thirds of those who had an opinion felt Faculty members are too remote. Over three-quarters said there is an overemphasis on publishing in the advancement of faculty...
Like Spiro Agnew, Boorstin calls for "more attractive programs, affirming institutions." provoking "disagreement" rather than "dissent." Yet his earlier point is undeniable: the media design their programs not to insure community values but to satisfy the public, through the advertisers, the Nielsen ratings, and more furtive psychological methods. The vicarious...
Entrenched managements usually try to brand those who start proxy fights as "raiders" or, in the epithet applied by Montgomery Ward executives to Louis Wolfson and associates, "financial pirates." Executives of Minneapolis-based Honeywell Inc. can hardly take that line against one discontented stockholder. He is Charles Pillsbury, 22-year...
What American student would protest over inexperienced enterprise managers who were politically appointed a decade ago? Yet the generation gap in Yugoslavia is fired by the conservatism of partisan veterans in the bureaucracy. Many were given responsible positions in reward for their conduct in World War II. "These old bureaucrats...