Word: plight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social world what Milton Friedman does for the economic. She makes a compelling case that the greatest injustice facing the world are those that mildly inconvenience that well-heeled. The most insiduous aspect of the column is Nemy's assumption that all her readers must share the plight of which she speaks. No matter what one's tax bracket, one finds one self wondering right along with her about how to juggle three black tie dinner affairs in the same evening, or who should pick up the tab when both you and the friend you're eating out with have...
...last 20 years, Pisar says, he has lived by the ancient proverb that. "The ink of the scholar teaches more than the blood of a martyr." Today, however, Pisar is no longer so sure. Pointing to the nuclear arms race and the Middle East conflict, the plight of the Third World's hungry millions, and rising inflation and unemployment world wide, Pisar sees shadows of the past, warnings of future terrors that could come...
...could begrudge a dying baby the means of survival. But Debbie Pinheiro, Justine's mother, admits, "We really get jealous over it." Debbie, 20, and her husband Jose, 24, a welder, have tried to match the Fiskes' effort to focus attention on their daughter's plight. The Pawtucket, R.I., couple have also petitioned their Congressman and been headlined on the front page of the Providence Journal. "I hope that the same thing that happened to the Fiskes happens to us," says Justine's mother. "I'm nobody important, but I'm determined to fight...
...vivid example is the longstanding effort to ease the plight of Russian Jewry, which predates even the Soviet era. In 1911, American Jewish organizations lobbied hard to abrogate a 79-year-old commercial treaty, largely in retaliation for the tsarist government's discrimination against, and repression of, Jews. The campaign was successful on Capitol Hill, and the Taft Administration reluctantly terminated the treaty. The consequence for Russian Jews was a step-up in official antiSemitism...
WHAT HOLDS ALL THESE revolutionary approaches to gather is consistently superb line reading not only on the classic soliloquies but even during the endless stretches of desultory verbal fencing. He even incorporates the rarely heard second second-act prologue which summarizes the lovers developing plight...