Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realize that the plight of Black players in recent decades has been worse than it was several generations ago. Several past notable violinists include Jose White (1833-1920), who was a concerto soloist with the New York Philharmonic more than once in the 1870s; Joseph Douglass (1869-1935), grandson of the legendary Frederick Douglass and the first Black violinist to tour the United States as a recitalist; and Clarence Cameron White (1880-1960), who was active as a composer in addition to his concertizing...
...bash was over, Sierra Leone was left with more problems than ever: an authoritarian government, a languishing economy, all-pervasive corruption and $200 million in bills from the summit conference. As TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack E. White discovered during a visit to Sierra Leone, the country's plight is disturbingly similar to that of neighboring Liberia, where Stevens' friend and predecessor as O.A.U. chairman, President William Tolbert, was killed in April during a coup staged by noncommissioned officers. White's report...
...residents of Ajo, where the survivors were taken, are normally indifferent to the plight of aliens, but they collected money for the Salvadorans. The Legal Aid Society plans to go to court to foil any plans by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to expel them, and Arizona's Senator Dennis DeConcini asked the Administration to permit the aliens to live in the country that they had tried so desperately to make their home...
...mired in an endless series of camera pans and scenes that beg a batch of questions. Parker leaves his audience hanging--for two hours--drawing us into his den with upbeat music and rousing clips of rhythmic, euphoric chaos. But characters rarely develop, and when they do, their plight and the plot remain exasperatingly unresolved...
Police blamed the trouble on "Skollies," or roughnecks. But few could doubt that underlying the rage in Cape Town was the cruel dilemma of the "in-betweeners," the plight of the coloreds, who are also imprisoned by apartheid. In their segregated ghetto, where whitewashed bungalows sit beside cardboard shacks, political avenues are closed to them; few have any sense of direction. Says Poet Adam Small, who lives near Elsies River: "People here are in limbo; they just don't care any more. Their children are bitter and ready for violence. Like the sand of the Cape flats, apartheid lies...