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Word: plight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make the other crews' plight even more hopeless, Eliot will be allowed to use its new shell in this afternoon's championship. Paid for by private contributions, the Eliot shell is at least ten years newer than the newest of the other House boats. The advantage could be as much as two or three seconds...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Elephant Boat Favored to Sweep Today's House Crew Competition | 5/18/1961 | See Source »

...devoured by a lion. Thomas, choosing a safer pursuit, has turned journalist. Even as the congregation prayed hopefully for the vicar's "true repentance and amendment of life," Thomas was cheerfully splashing his life story across the front pages of the Sunday newspapers. As he told it, his plight was that female parishioners continually threw themselves at him. Said Thomas: "When I look back upon my years as a minister of the Gospel, I am by no means cast down by the knowledge that I shall never again wear the clerical collar. Truth to tell, I am a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Unfrocking | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...sequences, about the aloneness of a beautiful boy in a world that needed him. As soon as Malcolm becomes truly involved in this world, he is destroyed by it; he is victimized by the greed of those who love him. Its magnificent beginning which introduces us to Malcolm's plight is a fine example of Purdy's peculiarly over-generalized prose style...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: 'The Nephew': Bathetic Optimism | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...plight of Antoine Doinel could easily lend itself to appalling pathos, but Truffaut (who also wrote the screenplay) has scrupulously avoided this danger. Child-like comic effects predominate in many scenes, particularly those without adults; and realizing that in spite of his trials Dolnel can still behave like a happy and naive little boy, the viewer is made acutely aware of the wide gulf between the child and the adult. The film thus evokes a sense of frustration rather than pity...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: The 400 Blows | 4/12/1961 | See Source »

...confusing attitudes held toward him-that the mind focuses. Things were beyond everyone-most of all beyond Louis-prisoner of a system he could neither administer nor change. He had to go, but the agonized and muddled sincerity of all the witnesses gives pathos to his historic plight. King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tabloid of the Terror | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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