Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Part of All." Acheson himself was well aware of his plight. In his policy of "total diplomacy," he would need support both in Congress and in the nation. Soon he will have to urge Congress to admit more imports from abroad, a program which may stir the wrath of many a special interest. A man who constantly talks about the people but feels himself remote from them, he recently confided to friends his fear that the average citizen was not willing to support the sacrifices he thought were required. "All affairs are a part of all people," Acheson told...
Though Eliot has succeeded in creating out of verse some believable people, they are not people about whom one can become very concerned. The spiritual plight of Celia, the "saint," is not introduced until the last of the second set, the first and third acts being occupied with the breaking-up and patching-up of the marriage of the Chamberlaynes, who give the cocktail party. Interest in Celia blooms too late and too suddenly to allow much sympathy or investigation by the reader. The strongest character in Julia Shuttlethwaite, who is the epitome of all cocktail party gossips and ideal...
Ever since the alarming financial plight of the universities became evident, economists and education experts have been bringing up plans to close the dollar gap. These range from proposals for closing down a number of colleges to cries of "let the government...
...secret that America's 1600 colleges and universities are today facing their worst financial plight in history. For months university presidents and other education experts have been making speeches and writing magazine articles decrying an alarming money gap created by a partial economic recessing that drags down almost every source of income but touches hardly any costs...
...ranks with pre Stromboli Rossellini. De Siea's "The Bicycle Thief" comes to Boston after being honored as the best foreign film of 1949 by the New York critics, and receiving several other American and European awards. "The Bicycle Thief" is an excellent, occasionally brilliant document of the plight of "the little man." In all the noise about "the world's most acclaimed motion picture," however, one is apt to forget that it has short comings, like most other films...