Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...True to Be Good, by George Bernard Shaw. This gallimaufry of tired Shavianisms on the religious temper, the military mind, and the desperate plight of the idle rich is a theatrical sleeping pill. A full cast of stars-Glynis Johns, Robert Preston, David Wayne, Cyril Ritchard, Eileen Heckart, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Ray Middleton-try to wake the play...
...British Governor-General's nose in the federation's plight, burly Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky then rose to rail at Britain's "unparalleled treachery and deceit." Chin out, fists clenched, his voice trembling with anger, Welensky cried, "The interests of the white man and the ordinary moderate African in his thousands are being sacrificed in a long-drawn-out act of appeasement which puts Munich in the shade!" He charged that Britain intends the continent as a whole to "be handed over to racialism, whether the cost be a Congo or an Algiers...
...national measure which benefits "only" the nation, aid to education must depend for its support on those citizens who know the plight of this nation's schools firsthand, or who have read about this problem in the New York Times or The Saturday Review. These individuals are not now numerous enough to get any education bill passed, and they are not likely to be in the future, unless the President himself convinces people that his program deserves the "high priority action" that he requested in his message to the Congress...
...higher training. But the problem that Washington did not come to grips with still remains: the intellectual and technical proficiency of a segment of the Negro community will not guarantee a better life for the majority. Education, to many Negroes just as to whites, represents an exemption from the plight of the masses rather than a responsibility to improve that plight...
...they really care about freedom, they ought to learn of another side to the tragedy of South Vietnam: the plight of those nationalists caught between Diem and the Communists, of men who oppose dictatorship from either Right or Left. There are at least 25,000 of them in his concentration camps and many more in hiding or in exile...