Word: downtrodden
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...Tropics or Sexus, Nexus and Plexus come at four-page intervals. This is shallow thinking. Actually the canny reader skips through Miller not so much to concentrate on naughtiness as to avoid what comes between. What does is ill-written blather on one of two subjects: 1) the downtrodden state of artists in the U.S. (and their uptrodden bliss in Europe), and 2) how the world's troubles would be solved if everyone would be nice to everyone else...
...Egypt. Then the President smiled serenely, swung into a five-hour address that ended at midnight. Highlights: the country's long exploited fellahin should get political representation; nationalization of basic industries will continue; a vast social welfare program will aim at improving the lot of Egypt's downtrodden millions. "Social freedom." declared Nasser, repeating a favorite theme, "is the only door to political freedom...
...eared formula for Irish comic fiction: to one seedy slice of life from an impoverished Irish boyhood add one outrageous old character who swears a blue streak, acts like a freak, and is lovable as all get out. Stir in plenty of Irish whisky, a peck of troubles, assorted downtrodden womenfolk, a hard-drinking priest, plenty of disputatious talk about the church...
Died. Alexander Kahn, 80, Russian-born general manager of New York's Jewish Daily Forward, the U.S.'s largest (circ. 70,000) foreign language (Yiddish) newspaper, a tireless fighter for the downtrodden, whose fund-raising efforts among New York's wealthy Jewish families won him the title of "the East Side's ambassador to the Uptown Jews"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...extraordinarily gentle and soft-spoken person, Gropper seemed the angriest of men on canvas. His paunchy bosses, downtrodden workers and wounded soldiers not only parroted the party line and mirrored the headlines but were a staple of the artistic diet. After World War II, taste in art changed, and to look at a Gropper painting became rather like rereading Grapes of Wrath. American art became less interested in humanity, downtrodden or otherwise, than in art for its own sake...