Word: hardships
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...Harvard Summer School Repertory Theater's lively, straight-forward production, mounted in an excellent and unobtrusive set and supplied with equally good properties and costumes, makes poignant again the hardship of that era. Delivering Odet's studied commonplace speech with all the humor it deserves and the sense of tragedy that ultimately underlies it, the production imparts the old-fashioned feeling of uplift the play was undoubtedly meant to convey...
...fifties and sixties the sated Jews of "Goodbye Columbus," the children of men like Uncle Morty, are free from even the knowledge of economic hardship to experience a new kind of disillusionment practically unimaginable to their progenitors, disillusionment with the shallowness of life printed on a great big safe stack of dollar bills. Perhaps today as a different kind of economic squeeze threatens the comfortable life that endangered stack provides, one can sense again the conflict of Awake and Sing!, the conflict between ambition for security within the system and the risks of social change. If it is true...
...month Angus was accepted by Harvard, and the dream seemed nearer. Quite suddenly, disaster struck his family once again: his mother suffered a stroke, and she too became bedridden. It seemed the dream would have to be deferred, until a reporter for the Southern Illinoisan wrote about Angus' hardship. Though Angus, who will be valedictorian of his 26-member graduating class, won a $5,250 Harvard scholarship, he estimates it will cost $1,300 a month to hire help and pay for medical care for his mother and brother while he is away. Several people responded to the news...
Only three guards went among the 18 first-round picks. Tom Henderson of Hawaii went to Atlanta, Brian Winters of South Carolina was tabbed by Los Angeles and hardship case Gary Brokaw of Notre Dame was the last selection in the round, going to Milwaukee...
Cleveland, choosing eighth instead of third because of the Snyder trade, grabbed Campy Russell, another of the 13 players on the hardship list, from Michigan...