Word: gripe
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What is the point? I really do not have a personal gripe against Wilson or Anderson, both of whom in many cases were quite kind and helpful. The point is that this is what going through channels means. The "channels" are not really open, they are merely long and complex. For anyone with the patience, or perhaps naivete, to explore them to the end, the result is that the channels are rigged. Rigged the other way. I do not want to raise that statement into a universal truth. But this has been my experience. This has also been the experience...
...there is total consistency between his own action toward integration and his rejection of legislative compulsion toward the same end. "I got very big on the civic-service thing," he says. "It's basic to my philosophy. I really believe in individual service to the community. My gripe with the liberal today is that he has an empathy for the disadvantaged that will not translate itself into action. He won't get his hands dirty. He wants to impose a solution." Politically, too, Brock has not shrunk from hard work. He was the first Republican in 42 years...
Steiner's main gripe with the media, and especially the CRIMSON, is the criticism of Yovicsin. "People say Yovicsin is not doing this or that, but if guys are not doing their job, nothing will committee that is picking a new coach work...
Chokel said that at these meetings he often mentions a minor complaint students have, and Seiler guarantees to remedy the gripe immediately. For instance, when MBA candidates were not allowed to watch color TV in a lounge reserved for other candidates in a special program, Chokel hinted that the story might make an interesting article in the HurBus; within a week, MBA candidates were watching all the color TV they wanted...