Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little neighborhood imperialism. Some diplomats believe that it would help if the Israelis at least stated their willingness in principle to withdraw from the occupied territories, provided that their other legitimate security needs were met. It would also help the situation if they made a substantive recognition of the plight of Palestinian refugees...
While Band is about (in the words of one character) "six tired screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer" at a birthday party, the play neither apologizes for the homosexual nor preaches about his plight in an heterosexual world. Rather, playwright Crowley sucks us into a grimly realistic slice of the gay life to lets us draw our own conclusions...
...Another cause was the fact that Dubček no longer commanded the fierce loyalty that had united and inspired the Czechoslovak people six or eight months ago. Unnerved and physically exhausted, Dubček in recent weeks has withdrawn almost entirely from public life. Though sympathizing with his plight, many Czechoslovaks felt that his emotional make-up was poorly suited to the daily strain of coping with Soviet demands; they believed that toward the end he had allowed the country to lapse into a dangerous period of drift and indecision. A tough Husák, they hoped, might...
Today writing and lecturing are his only work. Breakfast of Champions, his next book, should appear this year. With characteristic irony it deals with the plight of robots who take over the Middle West (except for one flesh-and-blood Pontiac dealer), but find themselves bugged by problems of free will...
...response of the large institutions and the city government to the plight of the poor has been inadequate. Efforts have been misdirected and poorly coordinated. Last Monday the City Manager announced the formation of a task force to mount a coordinated effort to find low cost housing sites. But even if this effort is a success it will be several year before its effects are felt, and by then it may be too late...