Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are a lot of things that FCC wants to do and a lot of things it has to do. But probably the most important thing is to make its students want to learn, and let them feel that people are sympathetic to their plight...
...Progressive Labor type cuts his hair, puts on a T-shirt, and goes to work in a factory so he can talk to the workers and educate them about their true plight. The fallacy of such an approach lies in the assumption that the process of converting someone else to one's own beliefs is a purely intellectual one. It is wrong to suppose that all one has to do is to present the worker with facts and figures and expect him to be "educated" into understanding that his real enemy is the capitalist establishment. It is a myth that...
...plight of the Biafran people is a topic on which McGuire spends relatively little time, because he feels the subject has been adequately covered by American reporters, and also because the airlift crews seldom stay in Biafra longer than four hours -- the time it takes to unload 30 tons of baby food, or Mausers, or whatever from the Constellations. He does, however, venture to add a few vignettes to the picture of the people. Pilots on flights into Biafra carry canned hams and salt to give to the unloaders as an incentive for faster work. On one of his flight...
...Sincerest congratulations on your article about Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn [Sept. 27] and the plight of Russia's present generation of outstanding authors. Even under the most onerous of conditions the human spirit is capable of producing artistic works of outstanding merit. I hope that articles such as this one will help alert Westerners to the current deplorable situation in the U.S S R. and give a better understanding of the indomitable Russian spirit...
Scores of U.S. corporations, business coalitions, labor unions and foundations have contributed heavily to programs aimed at easing the plight of the nation's poverty-stricken citizens-a large proportion of whom are Negroes. In most instances, such efforts have been purely philanthropic. Yet it is becoming apparent that good deeds and financial dividends are not mutually exclusive...