Word: plights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lusher days, some six years ago, the Sociology Department was conceived by Social Ethics, with a small heritage from the Economics Department. Since then Sociology has been left to fend for itself more than most new-born babes. To inquire whether the present plight of the department is due more to neglect by the University or to internal weakness is perhaps needlessly academic, for the interactions are extensive and varied...
Even before it reached the stage, Novelist Greenwood's bitter description of the miserable living provided by Government bounty had assumed something of the authority of a State paper in Britain. It was referred to by members of Parliament when discussing the plight of the "depressed areas." Novelist Greenwood, who had written himself off the dole with his book, became a public character. There was national rejoicing when it was announced that his new prosperity would enable him to marry the sweetheart of his threadbare days. This was followed by a general lifting of eyebrows when the marriage failed...
...regions, New York City has most actors, most trouble. Originally in charge of the region was Elmer Rice, who wrote Street Scene in 1928. Failing to repeat that phenomenal success, Mr. Rice has become "progressively disenchanted" with the theatre. It was his idea that out of the piteous plight of his down-at-heel mummers might arise the beginnings of a State Theatre. The chef d'oeuvre of Director Rice's regime was a dramatized newsreel called Ethiopia. When WPA headquarters in Washington learned about Ethiopia the production was hastily canceled as a "dramatization which may affect...
Most Mexican artists with whom the U. S. is familiar are amiable bohemians who never leave the Federal District of Mexico if they can help it and who cover vast acres of plaster with humorless protests against the bitter plight of the masses. Artist Hidalgo hates parties, is intensely serious, neither drinks nor smokes, works ten hours a day, owns only one suit of clothes, and has traveled by ox cart, automobile and burro in every state in the Federation studying the Indians of his land. Professionally he is a humorist. His little wax figures, never more than six inches...
...diversions on the same subject (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932; Nov. 18), that isolated outbreak on one small ship of George Ill's navy looms larger than it should, has been given undeserved credit for causing widespread naval reforms. What really focused British attention on the seamen's plight was a much bigger affair that broke out in home waters eight years after the Bounty mutiny. In The Floating Republic Authors Manwaring & Dobree give a straightforward, factual account of the events which crippled two whole fleets and kept all England buzzing in the spring...