Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...juxtaposition of the horrifying and the hilarious forms part of the common round of existence-and of this startling play. British Writer Peter Nichols constructs a comedy of anguish, extracting laughter from the uncomic plight and blistering pain of two parents (Albert Finney and Zena Walker) whose ten-year-old daughter is a spastic...
...massed TV lights, Senator Robert F. Kennedy pounded a table to still the chatter of shabby, tieless white folk crowded into the one-room schoolhouse at Vortex, Ky. The New Yorker, lowest-ranking Democrat on the Senate's Labor and Public Welfare Committee, had come to assess the plight of once proud Appalachian mountaineers who rank today among the poorest of America's poor...
Kennedy was asked in the township of Pippa Passes, was a man reared to a multimillionaire's comforts concerned with the plight of Kentucky's poor? "I can't answer that question," Bobby confessed. "Sorry...
Unlike the commercial networks, public television has plenty of time available for the exploration of "social" questions, and it is a charter well worth pursuing. This month the National Educational Television channels are carrying a pair of muckraking documentaries on the plight of the migrant farm worker. No Harvest for the Reaper is a chronicle of exploitation of Negro migrants on Long Island; Huelga!, a report on the 1965-67 Mexican grapepickers' strike in California. Both films contained remarkable and affecting footage, although they were more successful as polemics than TV journalism...
...Sterling views it, all too many clergymen suffer from similar frustrations. Often, he says, it is the "maddening nothingness of their contemporary ministry" that drives clerics to abandon the pulpit; those who resist such pressures frequently become ineffective victims of "overstay" in their parishes. Compounding their plight, disturbed priests are usually afraid or ashamed to discuss their feelings with their bishops or parishioners...