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...harm may be done in this manner was perhaps best demonstrated by the 13-year-old, slightly retarded girl who was wheeled into the office in an attitude of extreme weakness and helplessness and with the most pitiful facial expression that can be imagined. When questioned as to her complaint, she stated whiningly: 'I have an auriculo-valvular disease,' a 'diagnosis' which, in conjunction with the attending parental apprehensions, had made a chronic invalid of the child...
President Conant has evidently had some trouble with his Lampoon subscription for his office mailed the following complaint to the Lampoon Circulation Manager a week ago today...
...just written a short prefatory note to the new edition of Miss Wurdemann's Bright Ambush. . . . Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line. I could cite complaint, as your critic understands the term-or appears to understand it-in every fine poet since and including Shakespeare. Any adverse comment on existence might be so cited as a "complaint." The "complaint" in Dante and in Milton must indeed be enormous! The whole thing is laughable, if it were...
...Association acts only on specific complaint, usually one of dismissal without just cause or notice. Last winter it deplored the farce which Huey Long had made of academic freedom in his Louisiana State University, but held its fire because no facultyman had yet dared raise his voice in protest. When a complaint seems worthy of action, Committee A asks A. A. U. P. chapters in neighboring universities to nominate an investigating committee. The committee visits the complainant's campus, hears both sides firsthand. Sometimes it finds that a sluggard or incompetent has got his just deserts. Sometimes...
...Complaint is sometimes made that the titans have departed from U. S. Business. But for the past 15 years Business has had at its core & centre the legendary equal of any of the 19th Century mythmen-Orlando Weber. Last week, without ever having found out much about him, U. S. Business lost...