Word: downtrodden
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Similarly, the musical Purlie, fashioned from the straight play Purlie Victorious, which opened on Broadway in September 1961, has become peculiarly quaint. The downtrodden, stereotypical Negroes whom it portrays seem uncannily unreal. Blacks have taken large, if not mighty, strides forward from the Purlie Victorious caricature, as much in their own minds as in white eyes...
McCann said he is trying to unify the two factions to work together for social equality for the downtrodden worker. He wants to remedy the problems of 30 percent unemployment and of discrimination in the job and housing market...
...Harvard wrestling team closes out its Ivy League season this afternoon when it hosts an equally downtrodden Yale team...
...Lawrence, one of the most, dangerously rallying Easteru squads, was still not entirely downtrodden. At 7:39, left wing Bob Wanamaker beat Durno for another Larry goal, and at the 15-minute mark. St. Lawrence was given a two-man advantage when both Cavanagh and Chris Gurry were penalized...
...automobile headlights pierce the cornstalks, blinding the audience. Police spotlights swim through the corn as two men break through and hurl themselves to the ground. The lights move away, the sirens fade, the men get to their feet, dust themselves off, and begin the harrowing story of long-suffering, downtrodden George and his simple-minded buddy Lennie. Of Mice and Men is once more on the stage, not as a play but an opera...