Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corporation at its meeting Monday discussed WGBH's plight but did not announce any definite decision of what steps to take...
Furthermore, WGBH-TV needs the help of the University, one of the 11 local institutions that cooperate in the management of Channel 2. The Corporation discussed WGBH-TV's plight yesterday and, it is hoped, will decide in two weeks to offer substantial aid to the redevelopment of what has become the leading station of its kind in the country...
What is clear is that the mind is assaulted by billions of events, objects, people and impressions (including some 7,000,000 discriminable colors). Yet, notes Bruner, "people can handle only a limited amount of information at one time." To make sense in this plight, humans rely chiefly on categorization and hypothesis-making. They group phenomena in terms of common properties-hot, cold, safe or dangerous. In thus categorizing things to arrive at concepts, they move from an "open hypothesis" stage of rejecting inappropriate information to a "closed hypothesis" stage of suddenly deciding "this is it." Especially with children...
Ghosts is haunted by a successful past. The plight of the playwright as social reformer is to turn one generation's problem into the next generation's platitude. When Ibsen took syphilis as a topic in 1881, the subject was novel, courageous and scandalous. In the era of antibiotics, it will scarcely lift an eyebrow, let alone carry a play. Other Ibsen shockers also qualify as placid truisms today: that a pastor can be a sanctimonious fraud; that mothers sometimes love their sons not wisely but too well; that in Paris, artists and models sometimes live together unwed...
People to People. Che even managed to have a talk with U.S. Presidential Adviser Richard Goodwin, 30, in Montevideo. With Cuba's economic plight growing daily more desperate (see below), Che's entire pitch at the conference was his desire for coexistence. According to reports, he sent Goodwin a box of Havana cigars with a note: "As writing to an enemy is difficult-and I am not good at writing-I hereby extend my hand." The two finally got together at a birthday open-house party at the apartment of a Brazilian diplomat named Gerson Augusto da Silva...