Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday's girl of the hour is Jane Fonda. Looking tempting and wholesome, she cries a lot but wears her teardrops like costume jewelry. Produced on cue, the drops are merely decorative, unrelated to any real passions or real truths about the plight of a 30-year-old spinster who has a sneaking fondness for bright balloons, babies and a big business tycoon. Abristle with private enterprise, Tycoon Jason Robards has filled an open date on his calendar by installing Jane in a company-owned apartment, where he can write her off as a tax loss and drop over...
Boston radio stations and newspapers carried elaborate stories yesterday describing the Hanover plight. Two senior stars, it seems, will miss Saturday's game against Harvard because of injuries. End Bill Calhoun, the team captain, suffered a hip-point injury against Brown last week, and halfback Paul Klungess has a charlie horse...
WHEN the Chartists marched on Parliament in 1839 to protest the plight of Britain's working class they did not, as some feared, batter down the doors. Instead, in a tactic they were to use twice more in the next decade, they brought forth a scroll that stretched for three miles and contained 1,200,000 signatures. Each time the lawmakers bluntly rejected their demands. Despite this failure, the Chartist movement was a dramatic expression of a right that runs threadlike through Anglo-American history, secured in Eng land first by the barons, then by Parliament, and finally...
...added irony, the official news agency on the eve of the celebration derided the Johnson Administration for being "more isolated than ever before." The propagandists were, in fact, unwittingly describing Red China's own plight. Not one foreign head of state attended the celebration, and the greetings sent from other capitals were decidedly frosty and reserved...
...Negro children. After all, it was through education nthat other minorities escaped mass poverty. Parental encouragement and help are of the essence in making children develep their potential. To be sure, one must be careful not to draw unwarranted analogies between the history of other minorities and the present plight of Negroes. But here is one analogy that is inescapable: only massive human investment in education can make economic equality possible