Word: complain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last four years, I've seen a lot of people act as though they're ashamed to be affiliated with Harvard. They warn others of the perils of elitism. They complain about how "out of touch" this place is. In short, they seem caught up in a competition of "I'm more populist than...
...change to a system of distributional requirements is a more realistic alternative. With an almost unlimited field of departmental courses--divided into Core areas--from which to choose, students could never complain for a lack of diversity. In addition, students would be exposed to the company of concentrators in the various fields, creating a truly rigorous atmosphere for study. Even those students lusting after survey courses in history and philosophy could be satisfied by introductory departmental offerings...
...much as we complain about the cost of textbooks, the textbook business is not terribly profitable," says Doug Ulene, a Coop director in 1988-89 and a 1989 Harvard Law School graduate...
What's different now is that there are so few ideologues among us. Big Think has been thoroughly discredited. Campus activists are by definition uncool and they frequently complain that they can't get the favorable coverage they used to depend on from the paleo-liberal Crimson...
...course, not everyone is sold on the superstores. Small independent bookshops complain that the national chains have encroached on their more personalized local businesses. Some book lovers too feel these commercial giants have spoiled things by turning book buying into a mass-market experience. "You hear the clanking of cups and people waiting for tables," says Susan Moriarty, a Denver-based travel writer. "It's all too frenzied. I don't want to get picked up in a bookstore. Bookshops," she adds, "used to be a private thing between you and a book." How quaint...