Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desperation of "Big Spender" never disappears from Charity entirely, and that is all in its favor. (Some time later, when Charity and her two cohorts sing a fiery plea for a better life on the Fan-Dango rooftop, director-choreographer Bob Fosse frames it with the "Spender" chorus line, for chilling results.) Yet some of the time--too much of the time--Charity seems hopelessly stuck in the mire of the heroine's never-never land...
What does Mrs. Szasz propose to do? She repeats an ancient plea that man should love his fellow men first, then animals. Viewed properly, they can teach him some valuable lessons. She tells of the father who found his four-year-old son whipping his puppy dog with a belt and shouting, "I'll make a man of you yet, you sniveling little bastard." The father, notes Mrs. Szasz, quickly modified his educational methods...
...courteous man, he preferred understatement. He put down Alabama's Governor George Wallace's 1963 defiance at the schoolhouse door as "a little man standing alone in his diminishing circle." Fittingly, his last column, an open letter to new HEW Secretary Robert Finch, was a low-key plea that the Federal Government not yield to Southern plans to perpetuate dual school systems for Negroes and whites. "The freedom of choice plan is, in fact, neither real freedom nor a choice," McGill wrote. "It is discrimination...
Shurcliffe winds up his book with a nearly-superfluous "Editorial comment," urging the U.S. to keep aviation from becoming "man's scourge." The plea has convinced the League's members and some 20 anti-boom groups across the country: the real question is whether it can convince Congress...
...staid burghers of Zurich, so obviously part of the modern world, re acted to the unfolding murder story with a primitive moral fury that the tabloid Blick described as "terrifying." Despite the judge's plea for temperance, police cars taking the accused to and from the court needed extra protection against would-be lynchers and were covered with spittle. Newspapers received hundreds of suggestions for punishment no less demonic than poor Bernadette's exorcism. One writer suggested tying the couple to a telephone pole and "delivering them to the people's anger until their God delivered them...