Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 56, still has to pay the $46,500 in libel damages and interest that he has owed a Harlem widow for two years. So, flying back from his $75,000 Puerto Rico beach house, Powell put the whammy on his Harlem friends. After explaining his plight to the congregation at his Abyssinian Baptist Church, he toured the nightspots, drumming up guests for one of his $25-a-head "Justice for Powell" cocktail parties, which have helped to raise $16,000 to date. "I'm just," said he, "a poor parish priest." He will be poorer...
Baro Finkelstone, the hero of Leslie Fiedler's latest novel, is a travesty of all the middle-aged Jewish liberals who ever lived in fiction. Pain is his pleasure. Having flagellated himself for Hiroshima, the plight of the Negro and the predicament of the American, he innocently demands: "Just tell me one thing I've done wrong." But in order to know that he is innocent, Finkelstone must suffer as though he were guilty, and Author Fiedler, who as a critic is the U.S.'s leading Freudian, cunningly assists his hero to find familiar occasions of guilt...
...charges that the riots had been provoked by "foreign agitators" (translated Ahmed ben Bella) and in a radio broadcast couched in peasant Arabic, focused the blame on "three disappointed elements" in Moroccan society: the students, the unemployed and the "malcontents." He announced no spectacular solution for Morocco's plight, only demanded hard work and patience. "A politician who promises you a prosperous future is a liar," declared the King with regal candor. "I cannot promise you a prosperous future...
...wonder, then, that voters took revenge on the one scapegoat available--the Governor. Such was the Governor's plight through the disastrous elections of 1962. What happened, then, to rescue the Governors in November...
...Frank White '66, of Winthrop House and Canton, Miss., has won the $100 first prize in the 1965 Public Speaking Awards competition. White spoke on "The Plight of Moderate Mississippians" to an audience in the Boylston Auditorium last night...