Word: plaint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beneath the mutual sneering across the generational gap, which is all part of the fun, is there anything more to the petulant plaint of the younger generation? Why is it so difficult to open up and trust somebody "over thirty"? What happens to people when they get to be thirty, anyway...
...workers behead the huge "Fascist" puppet and plan a democratic Italy. But the new tyranny becomes the assembly line, about which Fo raises a characteristically Italian plaint: "Women who work on the assembly line are forced to make 40,000 body movements a day. As a result, 15% of them become sterile and 30% cripples. In some factories where men are subjected to continual movement and noise, 40% of the men become impotent...
...meeting broke up quickly, the nostalgic plaint of one girl was barely audible. "Whither the inviolable sanctity of a girls' dormitory?" she said...
BOBBY GOLDSBORO: HONEY (United Artists). Goldsboro makes a full-time business of country corn, and he manages to harvest a goodly share of tear-jerking hits. His specialties are such songs as Honey, a pitiful plaint by a new widower whose wife went to the angels before her time, and With Pen in Hand (scribbled by Goldsboro himself), an equally lachrymose ballad about a husband whose wife is throwing him out of the house before he's ready to split. Goldsboro fans love such treacle; judging by his whine, so does...
...Some McCarthy workers sported buttons reading "We Try Harder"-in Hebrew. Posters announced: "God Isn't Dead-He's Just Lonely-But He Might Commit Suicide March 12th. It's Up to You." That same sense of last stand desperation was echoed in a primary-eve plaint: "Over 40%, we go on to Wisconsin; 30%, back to school; 20%, we burn our draft cards; 10%, we leave the country." When the results came in, it was on to Wisconsin, where last week a hard-core cadre of 300 New Hampshire veterans, many of them AWOL from classes...