Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-term solution is definitely needed. It may be that the married graduate student is a postwar phenomenon; but statistics indicate that his number is increasing, and he is probably here to stay. The plight of the married student, if not desperate, is nonetheless increasingly uncomfortable...
...forthcoming sale of Greensboro's public swimming pools," editorialized the Greensboro Daily News sadly, "symbolizes the plight of a tormented region. The torment stems from hates and fears tragically stirred by unfortunate but inevitable high court decisions. It becomes inflammatory when forces which would push too fast clash with forces unwilling to move...
...passion or affection for him." Even the ghost of Hamlet's father is tainted, as Author West sees it: he is the voice of the past, of tradition-and man's past is no cleaner than his present. Thus Hamlet, like every man, is in a hopeless plight: stab and kill as he may, he will never be able to right man's original wrong...
...familiar plight of painters and writers in seeking recognition is traditionally surpassed only by poets and sculptors, those artists who perpetually face the problem of addressing an extremely limited audience. And so, Aristide Maillol, Ernst Barlach and Gerhard Marcks, all noted for their sculpture, have translated their sculptural conception of form and line into two dimensions via the highly communicable medium of graphic...
Theatrically, it would not matter if Saroyan wrote first with an eraser−to wipe out reality−if afterwards, with a pen, he created magic. But this play has little magic: only a stab of pathos, now and then, in a wilderness of plight; or a flash of color, humor, poetry amid constant murmuration...