Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short talk, Alfred compared the plight of the playwright to that of a man playing Russian roulette with five loaded chambers rather than the customary one: no standards of tradition, of managerial judgment, of direction, of performance, and of theatre-going. Along the way he attacked the American version of the "Method," the outrageous prices ("All seats should range from 50 cents to $2.50"), and the middle class bias of the theatre...
...chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which has a lot to say about such things. By the dozens, Senators and Representatives arose to denounce the bargain. Among the most effective speeches was one by Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd. Said he: "Our national concern for the plight of the Cubans . . . should have been evidenced by effective help on the beachhead to enable their just revolution to succeed. By paying Castro's price for a thousand good men, we give him the means to strengthen his enslavement of 6,000,000 others. The American people will...
...police then fired pistols into the air, and the mob drew back. Ambulances took the Freedom Riders to the Anniston hos pital, where examinations showed that none had been seriously injured. The Freedom Riders in Bus No. 1 were finally rescued by Birmingham Negroes who heard of their plight, sent cars and brought them to Birmingham...
...Palmiro Togliatti, bowed to Moscow and with that act of trusty treachery began rising through the upper echelons to head the Italian Communist Party. The other, Ignazio Silone, refused and later left the party to write Fontamara and Bread and Wine, world-famed novels that incarnated both the plight of humble Italians and the soul of man under tyranny...
...pseudoreligious faith. "Its mystical ceremony of initiation resembles in many ways that of the shamans of the Kwakiutl Indians," he says. Bailey believes the analysts' "organized guild" to be "as powerful in its way as the Society of Jesus." And he accuses it of ignoring the plight of patients suffering from psychoses...