Word: downtrodden
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...MOVER Assistant Professor of Economics University of Illinois Urbana Sir: The South Vietnamese are faced with two alternatives, a rightwing oligarchy operating under a facade of democracy, or a rigid but efficient socialist dictatorship which at least perpetrates some social and economic reforms. A very substantial number of impoverished, downtrodden South Vietnamese peasants would seem to prefer the latter, judging by the efficacy of the Viet Cong in battle and in proselytism of the populace...
Died. Jim Mackenzie, 37, football coach of the University of Oklahoma, who in his first top coaching assignment last year, after eight seasons as assistant coach at Missouri and Arkansas, sweated something like 1,500 Ibs. off his downtrodden Sooners, winners of only three of ten games in 1965, fielded a rock-hard team with a wide-open offense (six wins, four losses) and won Big Eight Coach of the Year honors; of a heart attack; in Norman Okla...
...political content of the skit; and by the eruptions of the mental patients, who are paradoxically part of, and apart from, the aggressive "message" of the play. Everyone agrees that things were pretty bad before the Revolution, but Sade uses a cast of the permanently and prototypically downtrodden to illustrate his point that the poor will always be poor, the wretched always wretched and deceived by their leaders. Marat is killed as an act of ritual murder (primitive societies sacrifice their great man) and as an act of political punishment (his integrity is in question, his hubris at fault...
...Lower East Side, Lady Bird Johnson dedicated a new three-acre open space that is likely to be a trend setter for cities across the nation. Financed by a $900,000 grant from the Vincent Astor Foundation, Riis Plaza offers not one but four rooms to replace a sterile, downtrodden mall...
While studying the tense situations of Southern school desegregation, bussing in Boston, and the downtrodden lives of migrant workers, Coles found men and women of high stamina and courage who had grown up without education and surrounded by mental and physical disease. As a doctor he had looked at sections of American life which are by many standards pathological and abnormal. In these unlikely places and among these people he saw morality, human dignity, and a stubborn, indefinable kind of hope. These paradoxical discoveries at first surprised him; they did not fit the accepted conceptual scheme. Then he accepted what...