Word: downtrodden
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House choices say a lot about a first-year's political views. The bleeding-hearts among us seem to have a peculiar attraction for Adams House; why is it that those who claim to trouble themselves with the fate of the downtrodden also scramble claw their way into the most luxurious dormitory on campus...
...fear has hovered over him for years. In his mind he is a poetic playwright, but the world has seen him as a political, even polemic one, and his works are valued more as testimony against apartheid than for their subtle interplay of emotion and Beckettian sensitivity to the downtrodden. For many people, Fugard's dramas mattered less than the taboos they broke -- The Blood Knot put a black actor alongside a white one on the same Johannesburg stage -- and the punishments they brought, including revocation of his passport and virtual house arrest from 1967 to 1971. Those experiences ensured...
...theater door after last Saturday's screening of "Kanal," a black-and-white film in Polish depicting the harrowing deaths of resistance fighters in the Warsaw sewers. They sombrely flipped through an HFA bulletin, unconsciously echoing the scene in "Annie Hall" where Woody Allen and Diane Keaton emerge psychically downtrodden from a five-hour Holocaust documentary. "I think this reflects our own psychically that we would watch this film on a Saturday afternoon instead of going to a bar," said Joshua D. Jones. Why did he come? "I'm obsessed with World War II," he confessed. "I come here...
...more excuses." This effort to combat compassion fatigue mainly involves scheduling activities like manning soup kitchens after regular business hours so that potential do-gooders can pitch in. But, Adams stresses, the key is for volunteers to feel they really make a difference in the lives of the downtrodden. The coat drive was ideal. It keeps its promise to give the coats to needy people in a matter of days. Donors can get a warm, cozy feeling inside by simply cleaning out their closets...
...greatest intellectual danger of political correctness is its assumption that there are some ideas too dangerous to be heard, some words too hurtful to be allowed, some opinions no one is ever again permitted to hold. It assumes that all advances in the rights of the downtrodden are final victories, and that questioning those victories is tantamount to colonialism, night riding and the sword...