Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm problem. If the Government would withdraw from the farming business, thus eliminating hordes of Federal personnel sitting in offices and tramping over corn and wheat fields, allow those who are efficient and farsighted to survive, and realize that subsidy is not the answer to the marginal farmers' plight, we believe that farming could once again become a self-supporting industry...
...Kansas City at the time, and so he authorized Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson to replace him at a meeting of plantation owners in Cleveland, Miss. Acheson omitted the particulars, but his general message was clear: the United States ought to be conscious of Europe's post-war plight and ought to offer...
...Doubt. In the aftermath of Darwin, scientists grew increasingly confident that their questioning disciplines could eventually supply all answers, and were increasingly contemptuous of Genesis and all other parts of the Bible that conflict with science's discoveries. After World War II, when science capped humanity's plight with the hydrogen bomb, some scientists joined the nation's postwar religious revival. But eventually, though the churches had by then conceded much to science, many of the converts found them still too laden with ceremony and dogmatism for the scientific taste...
...economic troubles mirror the nation's political plight. The federation is fast falling apart because of racial conflict between its 300,000 whites and 7,000,000 Africans. Nyasaland, under fervid African Nationalist Hastings Banda, is ready to secede from the federation, and secession ist pressure is steadily mounting in Northern Rhodesia, where the United National Independence Party of wiry, in tense Kenneth Kaunda is expected to win handsomely in next October's elections. With Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia gone, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia would be left with no hinterland in which to market its manufactured goods...
Faced with this poem, any competent modern critic could easily go to work. He might first allude to its use of alliteration ("few fishes," "few fingers"). Clearly the poem deals with the plight of modern man reaching out for love and innocence but mocked by impending death. Love is the rose stifling in the blind house of modern technology. Note the repeated theme of blindness, and the plane that will bring annihilation to the world. Like the world, human love has no future. And little religious comfort. (The fish was an early symbol of Christian faith, now reduced-hence...