Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secret to be ferreted out. In Naked, the secret seems to lie with a disconsolate governess. A child in her care has dropped to its death from a terrace. As a result, she loses her job, her fiance, and attempts suicide. A "human interest" newspaper account of her plight brings other characters scurrying to pry out their share of the secret. An aging writer thinks the governess' story might make a good plot for his next novel. Her ex-fiance throws himself at her feet, in the belief that she tried to commit suicide out of love...
...plight of the cities," Kennedy declared at the December mass meeting, "--the physical decay and human despair that pervades them--is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met...If we here can meet and master our problems, if this community can become an avenue of opportunity and a place of pleasure and excitement for its people, than others will take heart from your example, and men all over the United States will remember your contribution with the deepest gratitude...
Nowhere is the pocho's plight-or potential power-more evident than in the monotonous, sun-scabbed flatlands of Ea,st Los Angeles, where 600,000 Mexican-Americans live. At the confluence of the swooping freeways, the L.A. barrio begins. In tawdry taco joints and rollicking cantinas, the reek of cheap sweet wine competes with the fumes of frying tortillas. The machine-gun patter of slang Spanish is counterpointed by the bellow of lurid hot-rods driven by tattooed pachucos. The occasional appearance of a neatly turned-out Agringado (a Mexican-American who has adapted to Anglo styles) clashes...
...most interesting questions that the book poses is whether or not the old publish-and-be-damned motto is compatible with modern journalism. Reston aptly describes the plight of a reporter who is faced with the decision of whether or not to print information which might be used as propaganda in the cold war, or which might prove diplomatically embarrassing to our government. The question is best presented through example; first, should reporters have exposed the Bay of Pigs adventure; second should reporters have published Kennedy's plan to intercept Russian ships carrying missiles to Cuba. Presumably in the first...
East Germany's relative prosperity has particularly impressed the country's youth, which remembers nothing but the drabness of the postwar period. Instead of reveling in the sadness of their plight, as they were doing only a few years ago, the young have been gripped by a certain pride of accomplishment. This pride is intensified by the fact that, next to industry, education has received top financial priority. Where there were only six universities with facilities for 8,000 students in 1946, there are now 44 universities and technical institutes with an enrollment of 220,000 full-time...