Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show in issue was Harvest of Shame, an hour-long study of the plight of the U.S. migratory worker presented last Nov. 25 on CBS Reports. Deliberately scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving, the documentary drew for turkey-stuffed Americans a stark picture of the field hands who rove about the country, living in makeshift squalor, and selling their labor for an average of $900 a year. Moving in shirtsleeves among the film's subjects, Narrator Murrow reached heights of personal indignation, as when he quoted one migrant-hiring Southern farmer: "We used to own our slaves...
Exaggerated Portrait. The plight of the migrant workers is bad; but because of its overstatement, Harvest drew howls, especially from Florida's U.S. Senator Spessard L. Holland, whose state was the one visited by Murrow. Harvest of Shame, said Holland, contained at least seven distortions and errors of fact. Holland cited, among others, the example of the 29-year-old Negro woman who told Murrow that she was the mother of 14 and had earned $1 for a full day's work in the fields. The facts were, said Holland, that seven of her children were dead...
...Club that there is "nothing more vital in government than the freest possible flow of information." Two days later it was revealed that the newly-sworn director of the United States Information Agency had attempted (unsuccessfully) to suppress the showing in Britain of a controversial television documentary on the plight of migrant laborers in this country...
Despair and a feeling of emptiness have arisen from the humanistic tradition, however, Tillich claimed. Existentialist philosophy has issued from the "discovery of man's ultimate predicament." In recognition of this plight he posed the "fundamental question of education." "Can we develop beyond this situation without sacrificing the humanistic achievements...
...girl who stands up to Mauler, is a parody figure mostly modeled on Shaw's Major Barbara-a Salvation Army-type lassie who belongs to an evangelical group called "The Black Straw Hats." She tries to soften Mauler's heart toward the workers' plight, while he tries to harden her mind toward the workers' wickedness. In the end, starved and dying, she proclaims that only violence will improve the world...