Word: meager
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...play, but no one has ever seriously denied that this is one of the greatest plays in the entire history of dramatic art. It is a daunting venture for any group of actors, and especially for an all-black cast such as this, since black actors have had such meager opportunities to play classic roles. Insofar as this production at Joseph Papp's Public Theater is a test of the thesis that blacks can play traditionally white roles with equal credibility and excellence, the results are inconclusive. There is proof, however, that proper casting is as imperative with blacks...
...have lagged behind consumers in spending, that the upturn is finally at hand. TIME's economists expect that businessmen's fixed investments in new plants, office buildings and machines will increase some 12%. Their spending to expand inventories should rise from last year's rather meager $6 billion to $12 billion or more...
Several programs have had meager results. WIN (for Work INcentive). which trains welfare mothers for such jobs as clerk and keypunch operator, enrolls about 120,000 women a year, but 70% drop out before finishing the three-to six-month course, mostly because of physical or emotional problems, including drug addiction. The Job Corps, which houses youths in camps in order to take them out of a ghetto environment while providing training, has attracted only 21,000 to its 71 centers, which have a capacity of 25,000. Many youngsters prefer even slums to the barracks-like camps...
...fire a Witness who worked there. Huts have been burnt, and as many as 60 Witnesses may have been killed. Most of the Witnesses have fled to a calamitously overcrowded refugee camp across the border in Zambia, where an estimated 19,000 have been fighting among themselves for the meager water supply. As many as nine are dying daily, mostly children. Said a distressed Zambian official last week: "Only a change of heart by Dr. Banda can save them...
Finally, even the farmer's child-wife, played by Liv Ullmann, is intoxicated by notions of unrestricted bounty and freedom. In the 1850s, the Swedes set sail. Ulysses had no more epochal journey than the ones made by 19th century aliens. Seasick, verminous, unable to hold their meager rations, the passengers think themselves in hell without the intervening grace of death. When the survivors reach harbor their true journey begins. Aboard a riverboat, they become aware of the flaws in the fable. Rich folk stride upon the top deck; down below are the new arrivals. Below them are Negro...