Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...false image of Mississippi that has been created by the few in our state who have committed unpardonable criminal acts has been exploited by unfriendly national news media." They also included 41 Mississippi Negroes, telling of the civil rights abuses they have suffered in their native state. But the plight of Negroes in Mississippi was perhaps most strikingly illustrated by a white segregationist: G. H. Hood, voting registrar of Humphreys County in the western part of Mississippi...
...iron curtain separates father from son, but only a matchstick partition divides their bedrooms, and that proves woefully inhibiting. Without any psychoanalytical jargonmongering, Naughton shows how every wedding bed contains six people. The tragicomic past of the two sets of parents is part of the couple's current plight...
...SEEN THE WIND? (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). This U.N. case history explores the plight of a family of stateless refugees who have spent twelve years on a freighter because no country will accept them. Maria Schell, Edward G. Robin son, Stanley Baker and Theodore Bikel are the stars...
Compared to the driver's plight in such situations, Ulysses' voyage home was a pleasure cruise. "The life expectancy of a stranded driver walking on an expressway," said an official of Detroit's Automobile Manufacturers' Association last week, "is perhaps 30 seconds." His expectancy is diminishing constantly as superhighways lace the land, bypassing towns, eliminating crossroad garages...
...shocked knowledge of his unavoidable engagement with the world. Donohue tells his oddly appealing, existential fable with precision of place and style, in a tone as cool as his hero. It reverberates in the mind like a slow-motion movie of a man falling from a tall building: his plight is horrifyingly real, but so is the absurdity of his flailing struggle, frozen on the film of memory...