Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What does it mean to be an intellectual in the U.S.? Is he really in such an unhappy plight as he sometimes thinks-the ridiculed double-dome, the egghead, the wild-eyed, absent-minded man who is made to feel an alien in his own country...
...Negro education in Georgia is a disgrace. What the Negro child gets in the sixth grade, the white child gets in the third grade." This appraisal of the Southern Negro's classroom plight came neither from a Northerner nor a N.A.A.C.P. propagandist; it was pronounced in 1948 by Fred Hand, then the speaker of Georgia's own House of Representatives. Hand's observation has now been expanded and documented in a beacon-bright study titled The Negro Potential (Columbia University; $3). The book, containing a statistics-studded chapter on Negro education in the U.S., was produced...
Speaking to the Young Republican Club in Emerson Hall, Benson declared that "Politics reached a new low this Spring when the Democrats held up and revised the Eisenhower farm plan in order to make political capital out of the unhappy plight of the farmer...
From his Detroit headquarters, the United Auto Workers' president, Walter Reuther, last week issued another bitter blast at auto layoffs. Cried Reuther: "The plight of thousands of workers on layoffs cannot be swept under a rug woven of platitudes or silence." But U.S. automakers used no platitudes last week. They finally faced the fact that their troubles are not lagging sales but overproduction. Though they had been cutting back steadily for a month, they now took drastic action. The week's score: 111,200 cars, almost 67,000 less than the same weekof...
...Columbia, and Mr. Armour Craig of Amherst. They will help repair the deficiencies occasioned by the sabbatical leaves of Professors Brower and Guerard; and as for Professors Levin and Bate and myself, we shall all teach here for half the year. In short, the "poor English major," whose plight you deplore, will not find himself rattling around Warren House entirely without companionship. Herschel Baker, Chairman, Department of English