Word: plight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contessa who clashes with a bitter homosexual painter over the boy. Watching past and present collide, seeing martyrdom cheek by jowl with betrayal and murder with suicide, the monsignor-before his own death-becomes a more troubled man of God and aware shepherd of men, as absorbed in the plight of sinners as in the credentials of saints...
...South Africans to remain in the Commonwealth turns on whether one feels there is any hope there. Everyone condemns apartheid, and certainly no one at the conference desires to support the tragic status quo in that unhappy land. But cutting South Africa loose would in no way improve its plight. Isolation would worsen the lot of the blacks, since the Afrikaaners would be driven through fear to worse repression, and it would weaken the position of the English-speaking population, the only soil for the seeds of change in the whole country. Severing the ties between the English-speaking group...
...right down; you cannot linger over it." Every so often, Lawrence becomes intrigued with some major chapter out of history - scenes from World War II, in which he served in the Coast Guard, the struggles of the American Revolutionists, the life of John Brown, the plight of migrant workers. When the idea is too broad for a single painting, Lawrence turns out a series. Otherwise he sticks to the things he sees around him - lovers on a couch before a blaring phonograph, a bone-weary prompter in a cheap vaudeville theater, the teeming streets of Harlem on a steaming summer...
...plight of the modern Jew is thoroughly treated in such disparate novels as The Wall and Remember Me to God. Since World War II, most novels about Jews deal with either annihilation or assimilation, getting out of the Warsaw Ghetto or into the Hasty Pudding Club. The atrocities of the National Socialist regime seem to have had an effect other than that desired by Hitler; they have made the public acutely conscious of the sufferings of the Jews. Auschwitz and Dachau created a wide and sympathetic audience for the outpourings of such ethnic authors as Herman Wouk and Philip Roth...
Somewhere in this plethora of novels, the basic ethics of Judaism, such as they are, have been lost; the characters have become stereotyped. They no longer have faith, they only have problems. Dickie Amsterdam is the most despicable "hero" to appear in a long time, and Marjorie Morningstar's plight is hardly worth the effort. This theme of assimilation gives the Jewish author a chance to spew out all his anger at being born a Jew, at being, in some sense, alienated from the rest of society. The cast of characters is always the same: the old fashioned parents...