Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This shifting political footwork makes him just as unpredictable in his view of the Republican Administration. Lawrence alternates between referring to President Eisenhower's "tragic plight" and hailing his economic proposals as the most "dynamic from an economic viewpoint [that have] ever been brought forth." His harshest words are for the "socalled liberals, New Deal writers, left-wingers" and Democrats who were "blind to the Communist menace...
...America has also been running a placement bureau, has so far been able to find jobs of various kinds for more than 700 expatriate Chinese. But last week the institute sadly reported that its task has only begun. Of the 6,000-odd refugees, hundreds are aging intellectuals whose plight is desperate and whose talents are going to waste...
...highlight the plight of modern-day humor, the title piece focuses on a psychiatrist and his neurotic patient who stymie each other with the question, "What do you want?" The doctor finally admits that what he really wants is a new wing for his house in the suburbs. Going home, the patient glimpses the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun and sets his heart on something at once simpler and more complicated: "I want the second tree from the corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near...
...sense of the common peril proves lasting, democracy in Italy may yet survive those who seek to kill it, those whose discordant actions discredit it, and those who are indifferent to its plight...
This book is the second novel to reach the U.S. from Franco Spain in the past three months, and the second to show that thoughtful and compassionate Spanish writers take a grim view of life. In The Hive (TIME, Oct. 5), Camilo José Cela highlighted the plight of poverty-stricken Madrileños. In The Final Hours, José Suárez Carreño, 39, portrays the night life of Madrid and offers a world where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless...