Word: plights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plight of drama at Harvard has been frequently discussed on these pages (and will continue to be, it is hoped, until the drama is given its rightful, official recognition); it will not again be related here. However, if the HDC had had intelligent faculty guidance and if it did not have to pay high rental fees (for both rehearsal space and an auditorium)--two handicaps the University could endeavor to remove--there is little doubt but that the past few years would not have been so fruitless and bitter for the Club...
When MacArthur is criticized for SCAP's failure to improve Japan's tragic economic plight, the general replies that he was rigidly bound by the directive, which expressed the will of the people of the U.S. Critics of SCAP, looking at Japan's slow recovery, insist the reply is only partially valid. MacArthur, they argue, had enough stature to go to bat in Washington against any directive he considered wrong...
...couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of Mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-less. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children...
Influenced by certain demands of one Joseph Goldstein ... I seek the suppression of Alice in Wonderland because it ridicules the plight of the poor Mock Turtle, a practically defenseless minority...
...jobs, to help support the family, and hung around Seattle's A.F.L. Labor Temple. There he listened to lectures delivered by old Wobblies, old Socialists and some advocates of communism. Franklin High's lively graduate had become a sullen young man, outraged by his family's plight and the collapse of his long-cherished plans for college. Half in despair, half in defiance, he formally joined the Communist Party...