Word: plight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They go for advice to a Harley Street specialist, who turns out to be the stranger at the cocktail party. They both lay their cards on the table face down. The specialist admonishes them for dramatizing themselves and trying to glorify their plight; they are, he says, mere self-deceivers. Actually Edward, who can love nobody, and Lavinia, whom nobody can love, share a common bond of isolation, and will be far happier together than apart. Celia Coplestone comes to the specialist, too, but with a sense of sin and a capacity for humility and atonement: for her, salvation...
Other reports on the football front indicate that influential alumni have been taking considerable interest in the administrative side of the University's gridiron troubles. These reports say that these alumni groups blame poor Athletic Association organization for most of Harvard's football plight. They believe that Harvard's admissions office, job office, scholarship office and alumni all are willing to do quite as much for football players as their counterparts at Yale and Princeton, but that the HAA has failed to organize these groups so that they can effectively aid Harvard football...
...More Money. The meeting lasted only 30 minutes. Then Attlee took his wife to a matinee at the Criterion to celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary. The play was a farce based on the plight of rich Britons stranded in a swank Swedish hotel after having spent all the money (?50) Attlee's government allows tourists to take out of Britain. At one point, a player remarked wanly: "My accountant has forbidden me to die until the Tories get back." Attlee just smiled...
...small island of Todday in the Hebrides: old men stare blankly, seeing no future in their lives, young men walk glumly through the streets, and children huddle in dark corners. Why has life on Todday become so sad? Because on all the island there is no whiskey! The plight of Scotsmen without their whiskey is dragged out to its fullest...
...pairing a picture called "Western Union" with another about Buffalo Bill. Aside from "Buffalo Bill's" Technicolor, they were pretty similar. Both used stock shots of bison chomping grass, both featured hundreds of war-painted extras in multi-feathered athletic supporters, both showed a genuine social concern for the plight of the Indian. More than this, "Buffalo Bill" included some scenes of a burning camp, and these--possibly discovered lying around loose on the cutting room floor--were reprinted in black-and-white in the second picture. Yet "Western Union" was a good movie, "Buffalo Bill" was foul; their difference...