Word: gripings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another problem will be reslanting the corrective course so that it, too, will teach writing for specific purposes, leaving straight composition to English C. There is going to be the difficult job of finding enough instructors who can teach the expended advanced composition courses. There is still the old gripe of regrouping the basic course in ability-selected sections. All these problems will have to be tackled and solved. The general reconstruction of English A is still a long step; if carried through intelligently it can turn a terribly awkward course into a program that should...
...President Jordan's forthcoming improvements. They are small points of confusion or inefficiency which the administration and the Library Committee of the Student Government should be made aware of. For these a special complaint-box ought to be stationed in the library, so that a girl can convert a gripe into a suggestion or an argument on the spot, instead of waiting until she is near the catch-all "Beef-Box" in Agassiz...
...cloud-filled skies and dust-covered prairie. It is a world handled by a small hand of cow-punchers. They cope with their world not be shooting pistols in the air against a tastefully setting sun; they are more genuine than that. They stand guard in the rain; they gripe about their food; they get tried and try to quit. Not once do they leer at some dance-hall floozy in a clap-board Honky-tonk. "Red River" avoids this sort of bunkum and gives a convincing picture of a cowboy's existence, laced as it is with dust-clogged...
This sop to the matinee trade undercuts some of the strongest human values in the film. The G.I. has a legitimate gripe: his allotment will not feed a gnat, let alone a healthy, expectant wife. The professor has been left on a shelf by loving friends and colleagues, to be dusted off at their convenience. Whenever these mistreated males threaten to let out a hearty, realistic beef about their grievances, Writer-Director George Seaton quickly smothers their growls under the suds...
...biggest gripe was over maintenance. In 1939 the cost of repairing, greasing, parking, storing and washing the private motorist's automobile had totaled $462 million dollars. It rose to $577 million in 1941, sank to an average of $490 million a year during the restricted war years. But in 1946, hand in hand with other costs, it jumped to $814 million, in 1947 to $995 million and seemed certain to be more than a billion dollars...