Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Refugees: some form of resettlement or compensation for the 900,000 Arab refugees who fled Palestine during the 1948 war and have been encamped in unspeakable bitterness and misery around Israel's borders ever since. Their plight is the Arabs' most effective moral case against Israel. "Israel is not prepared under any circumstances," Sharett reiterated last week, "to return and resettle refugees." His previous offer to accept 100,000 Arab refugees is now withdrawn...
...spring of 1949, a group of businessmen, publishers, labor and community leaders, with little more in common than a deep concern over the plight of U.S. public education, issued a simple statement that was both obvious and all too true. "There isn't much of a problem," said the group, "concerning what must be done to improve the schools. The problem is to get people to do it." Last week, as the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools prepared to dissolve itself, it could justly claim that never before had so many Americans been so eager...
...Cumming, another economical writer, appears, as usual, in black face. Like Ratte, with a few well-chosen references, he reveals the plight of his narator--a young Negro boy who is intensely concerned about being misunderstood--without, however, making his subject appear abnormally sensitive. One of the story's principal virtues is Cumming's knack for conveying the feeling of the woods in a very few words...
Much more serious, but less striking than Ratte's and Cumming's sketches, is Mary Meade Harnett's portrayal of the plight of a maiden lady who feels that her life has been sacrificed to the whims of her relatives. Mis Harnett makes her story especially complex by introducing another spinster's sickly cousin. Be delineating the character and thoughts of first one and then the other (rather than intermingling them) she expresses the barrier which has arisen between them. But while this separate characterization adds to the feeling of the hopelessness of their relationship, it still jars the reader...
Bowl Is Pot. More than 125 newspapers across the nation ran the book as a serial. When the Detroit Free Press published its series, one distraught father wrote in to describe the plight of his son in high school. "They are trying to expel him," he said, "or in some manner rid themselves of him. You know why? Because he cannot read. How in the hell he got as far as loB ... is beyond my means of comprehension." In Louisville, a mother reported on her third-grader's typewriting: "He typed the letters very easily . . . But after typing...