Word: plight
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Socrates in the Cells. Synanon depends heavily on group therapy, and it insists on a tough regime. Since both addict and nonaddict cons have made lying a way of life, absolute truthfulness is demanded. Any hedging, any attempt to shift the blame for their plight to others, is ruthlessly torn apart within the group. Even foul language is banned, because it might snowball into a rumble. And the ultimate punishment is expulsion from the program. But in return, Synanon gives the addict, often for the first time, a sense of belonging to a group. Instead of a "fix," it offers...
Philco got into trouble when sales of its consumer goods fell off so sharply that they were no longer enough to offset the heavy costs of developing computers and other new products. Philco's plight interested a young Ford executive named Charles E. Beck, now 41, whose assignment was to find companies for Ford to acquire. Beck saw Philco as a company without the money to capitalize on opportunities, but with an enviable record of scientific development: the first TV set that would operate without a roof aerial in 80% of U.S. homes, the first horizontal freezer compartment...
Despite the appearance of Walter Judd and 11 other speakers, who be walled "the plight of the individual in mass society," last weekend's Yale Challenge colloquium attracted 500 fewer listeners than last year...
...California at Berkeley usually glows with the promise of incessant sunshine and 17,000 tanned, wildly social collegiates. When compared to the slush of a Cambridge winter and the frequent dearth of "available" 'Cliffies, the Cal student does indeed lead a glamorous life. Yet it is the unfortunate plight of Berkeley students that intense social pressure deprives many of them of a full share of the advantages which are so glaringly available...
...indeed is the plight if the American Gaullist. You and I and Secretary McNamara alike have all been deprived of our New York Times; and that is horrible enough. But for anyone who does not believe that Charles de Gaulle is some diabolical combination of Louis Napoleon and Bertrand Russell, breakfast reading of late has been an experience verging on the traumatic...