Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee read from Black Boy, Richard Wright's autobiographical account of the plight of the slum Negro...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. John Osborne has orchestrated the plight of a man out of tune with his time, working in themes of frustration and painful self-recognition, building to a crescendo of despair. Actor Nicol Williamson is the commanding virtuoso...
...Pauw's plight differed from Berrigan's in that he had openly challenged church policy and conciliar directives, whereas Berrigan had embarrassed his superiors in a secular matter. But both cases showed that priests are much like privates when it comes to higher orders...
...culture commissar for Communism. Himself a Jew, he became anti-Stalin and quit the Party only when he discovered that Stalin was anti-Jew. This underlies the special weakness of Fast's tale. In fashioning Torquemada as a demented racist and centering his story on the plight of the Jew, Fast ignores history. The Inquisition was concerned with heresy not heredity; it was Catholic Spain's method of safeguarding theological doctrine. Less than one-fourth of Torquemada's 8,800 victims at the stake, in fact, were impenitent Jews...
...leaders and members of the TWU are of Irish descent. They do not belong to a fashionable minority group, and therefore their demands -- and their problems -- can be dismissed with scorn. I have heard many Harvard-Radcliffe students, all thoroughly sympathetic to the civil rights movement and to the plight of the Appalachians, scoff at the idea that skilled transit workers should make more than $3.13 an hour...