Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conceivably the best undergraduate story published so far this fall, Gerald Gillespie competently unravels the mysterious adventures of "the mighty and fabulous Alphonso Fitzpatrick." The Kafkacsque plight of the hero is overcome with fancy and humor...
...Teach the Child." Author Dunn agrees that poverty, broken homes and indifferent parents must share the blame for the plight of the bad big-city school. But after four years, she also decided that the modern educational theories with which she had been in sympathy at first have been a wasteful failure. The experts talked an incessant stream of sentimental nonsense ("We don't teach the subject. We teach the child"). They spoke of the dangers of a "fixed curriculum," and of the necessity of making education "meaningful" by relating every subject to the children's interests...
...Night Plight. In Ventura, Calif., haled into court for driving without lights, Mrs. Florence Sandberg was allowed a month's time to choose between a fine or a jail term when the judge refused to accept her defense: "I can see like...
...Roomful of Roses nowhere skimps Bridget's plight, but it far from gloomily dwells on it. However valid, Bridget's seems a matinee or televised grief. And Playwright Sommer wants to have her ache and eat it, too. She stirs into the play a full cup of adolescent humor, a level teaspoonful of small-boy remarks, a lightly beaten offstage comedy husband and the juice of one uninhibited maid...
...Principal John McNeill of Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School: "We are shocked and depressed by the general failure of the authorities to understand the sorry deterioration in our high schools. The resentment of teachers who feel that no one at headquarters understands their problems or considers their plight seriously has changed the atmosphere of every high school in the city. They are not the high schools of the good old days, believe...