Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic trouble with the play is that it is merely a shrewd exercise in Broadway marketing research. A vast number of New York theatergoers are Jews who savor a Borscht Belt humor and are traditionally susceptible to worthy causes-of which the hottest, currently, is the Negro's plight and rights. This mating of comedy, conscience and commerce fails to generate any excitement...
...happy frenzy that survived for three seasons on Broadway. Movie Director Bud Yorkin borrows bits of Abbott's inventiveness, but his own method is to linger over a gag until all the life has run out of it. He belabors a drunk scene, overestimates the humor in the plight of Ford's married but childless daughter (Connie Stevens) who browbeats her callow husband (Jim Hutton) into orgies of planned parenthood. There is something unwholesomely prudish about a hip young modern who greets the revelation of her mother's impending event by crying tearfully: "All men are horrible...
...gift is the result of an eight-year study that explored the pathetic plight of the American musician. The average annual salary for musicians playing with the 25 major orchestras (defined as those with budgets over $250,000) is $5,267; for those with the 33 metropolitan orchestras (budgets over $100,000 but under $250,000), it is $1,174. In the vast majority of cities, elementary and high school teachers are paid better than the symphony musicians, most of whom moonlight at everything from teaching to selling used cars...
...foundation emphasizes, the grant will cover only about 10% of projected orchestral costs during the next decade. "We hope," said a foundation spokesman, "that the very discrepancy between the size of the grant and the enormity of the need will awaken more people to the plight of the artist in our society...
...plot, a slapdaptation of Actor-Author Robert Shaw's straight-faced novel The Hiding Place, gropes for drollery in the plight of two American airmen (Michael Connors and Robert Redford) who arrive in Germany by parachute and seek refuge in Prick's basement bomb shelter...