Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bowron's plight made this election year an open season. Four candidates decided to campaign against him. One of them, an undistinguished Congressman named Norris Poulson, 57, drew the backing of Los Angeles' business community and the rich, powerful Los Angeles Times. Poulson campaigned hard; Bowron spent much of his TV time on such municipal problems as the garbage-collection budget...
...Harvard grad's life is a frustrating plight...
...life of a Grad is a frustrating plight...
...little pretense of plot, I Am a Camera tries to reproduce Isherwood's impressionistic picture of a decadent city. Essentially, however, the play is no more than a character sketch of the memorable Sally Bowles. Van Druten's efforts to dramatize other elements of Isherwood's portrait--particularly the plight of Jews in a Germany rotting with Naziism--are remarkably unimaginative. And less significant diversions--the American millionaire, the comic landlady--are written and played as stereotypes. Because of Julie Harris, however, I Am a Camera successfully captures the Sally of the Berlin Stories. The immature, flambouyant nymphomaniac steps from...
...happily at peace with the world until he sits down to draw. Then he spears humanity's Dilberts with the savage drawings that have appeared in such magazines as LIFE, FORTUNE, Look and Holiday. "This," he scrawls in the preface to Low & Inside, "is about the steady plight of man; the anarchy of his laughter and the terrifying lawfulness of his tragedies." Whether readers should snicker or shudder at his insane world, even Osborn doesn't know. "Humor is a funny business," says he. "It's hard to tell where humor ends and sadness begins...