Word: plight
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Congress began funding the libraries in 1955 and three years later, moved by the plight of Harry Truman, added pensions and perks. While departing Presidents now get a transition fund of $1 million, Truman left the White House emptyhanded. Back in Independence, Mo., he refused to take any job that would trade on his past and spent his time answering quantities of mail, an economic burden for the proud former haberdasher. Several of his predecessors had died in financial straits, including the penniless Ulysses S. Grant, who had tried to provide for his family by toiling over his memoirs while...
...problems that beset the nation's educational system, one of the most intractable has been the plight of the inner-city high school. Crippled by crime, underfunding and racial strife, the schools have been unable to motivate students who play hooky and mark time. Academic performance has been abysmal. But now there are signs that some ghetto high schools, despite their appalling problems, are making substantial progress. Last week the Ford Foundation singled out 92 schools in 20 large cities for praise and gifts of $1,000 each, which were far more important for their symbolic value than...
Rockwell seems truly to empathize with the underdog and the outsider, especially in his discussions of Palmeri and the seminal Black jazz-funk alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Throughout the book, he stresses the importance of alienation in the creation and development of art and the plight of those who go unappreciated by their public. But he is severe on composers and artists who bend to the will of their audience and waters down his praise for popular musicians such as Keith Jarrett or Philip Glass...
Equality and simplicity are what our tax system desperately needs. The flat tax would be the solution. If the poor would suffer undue hardship under this system, their plight could be lightened with benefits such as Medicaid and food stamps...
...march had been planned as a peaceful demonstration to dramatize the plight of unemployed Brazilians. But as the procession of 1,000 made its way through the streets of Sāo Paulo last week, the mood suddenly turned ugly. Shouting "End the unemployment or we will stop Brazil!" a rampaging mob shattered windows in supermarkets, butcher shops and bakeries, stripping shelves bare of food. Other looters helped themselves to clothing, television sets and even 518 Ibs. of coffee from a delivery van. The rioting continued sporadically, spreading through poor neighborhoods and threatening the busy downtown shopping district. At week...