Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fish & Olive Oil. Iron Curtain diplomats in London have been telling the British for months that the only solution for their economic plight is to cut loose from the U.S. and trade with Russia. The British government and many Britons know that this is a trap, but there are plenty of people (notably Aneurin Sevan's followers) who are willing to listen. It is the same in the rest of Western Europe, where growing islands of unemployment have appeared in recent months. Owners of processing plants in Antwerp, fisheries in Trondheim, boiler works in Lille, olive groves in Tuscany...
...Palestinian is a lonely man who hates the Jordan government which took over his country against his will. He also despises the U.S. and Great Britain, on whom he places the major blame for his plight. He particularly hates Harry Truman and hopes that General Eisenhower will be elected and that he will change U.S. policy on the Israeli-Arab problem. The British whisper that Britain did everything it could to protect the Arabs against the U.S.'s mad determination to create the state of Israel. The burden of hate is shifting more & more to the Americans...
...dean, although touched mightily by the plight of the several Christian fraternities, was a bit shocked by the proposal. "The University," he said, "does not hate now and has never had a quota system." The matter was laid to rest and the group came up with its other proposals to obtain a "better" Jewish-Christian ratio--measures involving big publicity campaigns and more extensive interviews of candidates for admission...
Doctors cannot be sure how much they have done for Norman Bennett and others in his plight. They will not talk about a "cure," or even a "fiveyear cure" or a "ten-year cure." But they are confident that they have done a lot of good...
...writing, in individual scenes, Flight into Egypt becomes vivid and even terrifying. Elia Kazan's direction is forceful, and as the suffering husband & wife, Paul Lukas and Gusti Huber give fine, telling performances. But the play falls far short of significant drama. It clearly concerns not just the plight of refugees, but the question of their always being foreigners, and the corruption that menaces them in a foreign land. Yet even while it interlaces these three themes, the play at bottom rests on none of them; at bottom it is pure domestic drama-the anguished struggle of a wife...