Word: plight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what does a rooter do when there is no one to blame, when he knows the team has no choice but to plod along? My hunch is he doesn't stick around for long to watch. And thus the Orioles' plight becomes a matter of survival, not of success...
Marry Me suffers from almost the exact opposite problem. The action is simple and complete, but with no one to hold it together. Its hero's plight is neither real enough to attract our sympathies, nor is his method of dealing with it courageous enough to merit our admiration. As a novel, Marry Me fails; but with some paring, it's a property Lee Strasberg might be interested...
Cries Sasser, a lawyer and former state Democratic chairman who grew up on a Tennessee farm, "How can a millionaire know the plight of the poor, the uneducated, the jobless, the sick?" His adroit use of sarcasm against the low-keyed Brock has been withering. When the Republican tried to link Sasser to minor scandals in the Democratic state administration, Sasser smiled: "I didn't know William E. Brock the Third was running for Governor." At a joint appearance, Brock declared he intended to run on his record. Quipped Sasser: "That's the best news...
...strike is over, the strike continues, and the students face a Kafkaesque plight...
Carter has also shown himself to be a man of good political instincts -not only in the tactical but in the philosophical sense. He is genuinely moved by the plight of society's underdogs and is never more eloquent or compelling than when he talks about their problems. Lately his instincts have failed him, as when he granted the Playboy interview...