Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most celebrated novel was The Jungle, published in 1906, which told the harrowing story of a Lithuanian immigrant worker in Chicago's meat-packing industry. Though Sinclair's main intention was to dramatize the plight of a helpless proletarian, he described the then prevalent filth and brutality of the industry in shockingly graphic terms. The Jungle, turned down by five publishers before Doubleday, Page & Co. accepted it, was front-page news and an instant bestseller. Meat sales slumped throughout the U.S. Within months, Congress passed the nation's first pure-foods law and required more than cursory...
...James Coco, he is a sharply drawn caricature of the New York City prole ("I may be 40 stories up but I'm the man in the street"), who coolly surveys the tied-up man straining to free his bonds and ignores his gagged pleas and his plight with magnificent aplomb. He intends to write a book about all the crazy things a window washer sees, and this is simply another usable item...
...After reading your article about the plight of Negro Scott Damaschke and his white father [Nov. 1], I was incensed by Judge Streeter's attitude. Why hurt an innocent child, living happily with his family, by removing him from those he loves because they are a different shade? Judge...
When a newspaperman strives for "objectivity"--an impossible goal if this means total detachment from his subject matter--what he truly seeks is fairness. Mailer's approach, with a couple of exceptions, in no way is intended to describe impartially the plight of human beings on the wrong (police) side of the barriers. Newspaper reporters do seek this sort of impartiality, or lack of bias--or, if you like, omniscience...
Many New Yorkers shared that somber view. The city's plight, of course, was not one of physical survival-though some cynics argued that New York's complex ills could only be cured if the metropolis were razed and rebuilt. Its breakdown this fall was one of spirit and nerve, a malaise that affected the tacit assumptions of trust and interdependence without which no organism so vast and disparate can possibly function. In what most responsible citizens concede to be one of the ugliest situations in memory, strikes and the threat of strikes pitted not only union against...