Word: pauperizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...High Veld are the tobacco ranches, the major cities, and most of the country's wealth. Whoever controls that high land controls the destiny of the country, and whoever fails to control that plateau becomes a pauper. All other inequities in Rhoddesia result from the unequal distribution of land--the Europeans on the rich land and the Africans on the poor...
...Arthur Carlsberg, you report, is a millionaire. He is so busy he rarely sees his three sons-takes off one week a year to spend with them, and leaves his office to be with them on their birthdays. Big deal. Arthur Carlsberg is no millionaire-he is a pauper...
...attention has been drawn to your report [Nov. 27] entitled "The Princely Pauper." There is no truth whatever in the story that Prince Charles has sold his autograph at any time. There is also no truth whatever in the story that he sold his composition book to a classmate. In the first place, he is intelligent and old enough to realize how embarrassing this would turn out to be. and second, he is only too conscious of the interest of the press in anything to do with himself and his family. The suggestion that his parents keep him so short...
...bite. From her vantage point near Herod's Palace, Claudia describes Christ's passion in gory detail: "Jesus, bound to a pillar, and standing in a red pool of his own blood." After the Crucifixion, Pilate loses favor with Rome, and ends his life a sick pauper, trembling on the verge of-is it faith? "Ye who pray," Claudia cries, at the thrilling climax, "pray now for Pontius...
...Oliver! is not as bad a show as it ought to be. The archetypal force of the Dickens story still faintly magnetizes the stage. Fagin is a kind of storybook witch, but the power of witches exists to be broken. Oliver is destined for storybook transformation-the ill-born pauper turned well-born prince, the maltreated underling who bests his oppressors, the orphan boy who finds a father and a home. Every boy who ever had a nightmare or a dream, every adult who ever yearned for renewal or rebirth, feels the pull of Dickens' fable...