Word: plaint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slum, the Elms is a squalid place to live. During the day a child can be seen, crying but unnoticed, on the step of an entryway. And as evening comes, a teenager can chase a screaming seven-year-old across the project without interference. A mother's plaint is accurate: "The project is no place to bring up a child...
...next night Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy appeared on TV for an hour-long intimate glimpse, taped earlier by NBC and sponsored by Crest toothpaste (thereby causing wags to wonder if Ipana, Stripe and Pepsodent would demand equal time). The First Lady won headlines with her plaint that the fishbowl life of the White House was "very hard" on the children, that she was striving to provide "normal" and "private" lives for them. As for daughter Caroline, "Someday she is going to have to go to school, and if she is in the papers all the time, that will affect...
...Canadian magazines' story is that they are fast failing financially at the hands of U.S. publications that, entering Canada with an editorial product already paid for by their U.S. circulation, enjoy an unfair edge in the race for Canadian readers and revenues. The plaint is a familiar one. In 1957 a Liberal government zeroed in on Canadian editions of U.S. magazines (principally TIME and Reader's Digest), imposed a 20% tax on their Canadian advertising revenues. Diefenbakers Tories denounced the tax as discriminatory and as an interference with freedom of the press. Since the tax also failed...
...central theme of Cleveland Amory's misleadingly titled Who Killed Society? The forms of Society die, but Society is indestructible. After every major upheaval-war, depression or graduated income tax-the cry arises that Society is not what it used to be, and Amory divertingly traces this plaint all the way back to the landing of the Mayflower. That sacred vessel, reports Amory. carried a nondescript list of lower-middle-class passengers, plus a sprinkling of servants; and not a man in the lot could sign himself "Gent...
Though most specialists agree that something should be done for their own peace of mind and also the patients' benefit, they have few constructive suggestions. More characteristic is the despairing plaint: "Who's to start working up the 'God only knows' diagnosis?" To that, neither confused specialist nor confused patient had an answer...