Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Shirley Ann Schopp came down with polio last year, her father & mother worried, like every father & mother in the same plight, about the lasting paralysis that might follow. For months, it seemed that their worst fears were confirmed: three-year-old Shirley was almost completely paralyzed. But Shirley's father is Dr. Alvin C. Schopp, an orthopedist at St. Louis University and St. Anthony's Hospital. He had been searching for years for something that would help to give back vitality to nerves damaged by the polio virus. A new drug, Pyromen, had just come...
...motion. It is the tale of the Rev. Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee), a simple Zulu minister who journeys from Ndotsheni, Natal to the great, bewildering city of Johannesburg to find his lost sister. There he discovers that she has become a prostitute in the squalid; segregated shantytown where the plight of black-skinned people in a white man's world is shockingly evident. The black voyager also finds that his only child, Absalom, has murdered a young white champion of the oppressed Negroes. The victim, by a further twist of fate (and fiction), is the son of the Negro...
Gertie (by Enid Bagnold), a frail, younger English sister to Jane, paid Broadway the briefest of visits. A generally listless comedy, it concerned a family that would soon run out of money, and the plight of its two daughters in an England that seemed already to have run out of men. Its one real claim to attention was the Broadway debut, in the title role, of British Cinemactress Glynis (State Secret) Johns, who gave a highly engaging performance...
...based on a story by Jerome Weidman, bears an astonishing resemblance to Henry James's chilling classic, The Wings of the Dove. Like James's Milly, Dorothy McGuire is a poor little rich girl doomed to an early death from an incurable heart ailment, and her plight provides an opportunity for a pair of fortune hunters. When the film opens, Dorothy-unaware that she has only a few months to live-is being showered with expensive gifts by her grieving father, Louis Calhern, and with little attentions by her husband, Van Johnson. Between presents, everyone keeps telling...
...blooming artistic career might be cut cruelly short. His father, a poor tenant farmer, could not afford the $235, for tuition and expenses, to send Severino to art school in nearby Urbino (where Raphael was born in 1483). Rome Art Dealer Gaetano Chiurazzi, informed of Severino's plight, offered his gallery for a show of Severino's drawings plus a sampling of the most distinguished works of the Severino School, all proceeds to go to the artists to "study and grow...