Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of how a colored boy named Sonny Clark is hunted down and lynched for a rape he did not commit. More elaborately, it is an account of the behavior of Southern whites during such a man hunt. In particular, it is a tragicomic study of the plight of 300-pound Jeff McCurtain, sheriff of Julie County, Georgia...
...play has almost no plot, hence almost no suspense; it is largely a sentimental picture of mixed-up people in a strange land. What little emotion it arouses is one of pity for the refugees' plight rather than of indignation for what caused it. This is to write in a minor key, and flub a big theme. For there must always be those who, sick for home, stand in tears amid the alien corn. But only once in a very long while has the home they weep for been turned into a living Hell...
...gaining momentum. In Textiles, surpluses pushed prices down most sharply. Cotton mills, mostly on three shifts for months, are practically through shipping on 1939 orders, must face the fact that new orders are equal to only 33% to 40% of their capacity. Woolen mills are in the same plight...
...present their plight is lamentable and it will become much worse. They bow humbly and in fear to German threats of violence, comforting themselves meanwhile with the thoughts that the Allies will win. . . . Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured...
...people have little need to be educated "to assume a responsible relationship to the present conflicts." They have one already. Those Americans who are called "isolationists" are for the most part not mean, parochial, self-righteous, or scornful of all warring nations. They have a deep pity for the plight of Europe, and a strong desire to help in the common cause getting rid of war. They fully realize that America has a stake in the world, and cannot withdraw behind her shores, and they are forever watchful for the time when America['s strength and influence can most effectively...