Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to John G. Butler '63, one of the founders of a forthcoming Negro student magazine, "Although few young Negroes can subscribe to the Muslim eschatology, they appreciate the articulate, forceful, and accurate Muslim description of the plight of the American Negro...
...urge Harvard not to support Project Jarba, Phillips Brooks House's refugee resettlement program, unless Jews can participate, are oblivious both to political necessity and the magnitude of the social problem. In protesting the anti-Judaism of the Jordanian government they refuse to give due consideration to the plight of the refugees from Israel who are cooped in squalid camps along the Israel-Jordan border. Blindly indifferent to the angry and resentful anti-Jewish feeling continuously created by the refugee camps, they refuse to help resettle the refugees...
...moral state of America has almost nothing to do with its present precarious hold on the future: a better America, a fairer America, a less commercial America, would be in much the same international plight. And it seems to me that the greedy desire of a shelter owner to keep out the people who have not been able to build their own refuges is a different kind of evil from that which prompts men to push missile buttons...
Bolt's meaning is clear: one must resist the compromise that corrupts, the conformity with society that becomes deformity of the soul. But modern man's plight is more complex than Bolt's parable suggests: it is to locate the ground of faith on which to stand. Sir Thomas More was an exalting figure of probity, but he possessed the inner certainty that his final public was, indeed...
...United Fund official has described the plight of the Cambridge drive as "critical" and has appealed to Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates for help in door-to-door solicitation...