Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about time this happened, and this particular process of liberalizing our media couldn't have started with a better work. The Boys in the Band neither apologizes for the homosexual nor preaches about his plight in a heterosexual world. Rather, it sucks us into a grimly realistic slice of the characters lives to let us draw our own conclusions...
...developing methods of teaching reading skills found to be inadequate among many students. He also asked for a network of experimental centers to study the education of prekindergarten children. On his own authority, Nixon established a Commission on School Finance "to help states and communities to analyze the fiscal plight of their public and nonpublic schools...
...Will. Pozzuoli's plight is apparent everywhere. Walls and roofs have cracked. Dozens of buildings have been declared unsafe, including a hospital, a police station and the city hall. The waterfront has risen so far above the Bay of Naples that workmen finally had to chop away huge chunks of the stone wharf before ferries could conveniently dock again. The elegant Roman ruin known as the Temple of Serapide, standing in the midst of a small waterfront lagoon created by ancient sinking, now is higher out of the water than ever before in the memory of Pozzuolians. The hardest...
Like Ten X Rays. Levine's plight was accidentally discovered during a routine radiation check of the New York state health department's radiological sciences lab in Albany, where he is now employed. At first, the state kept quiet about the case. But eventually a reporter heard about it, and state officials decided to head off scare stories by giving the facts. "From a public health point of view," they insisted, "there is absolutely no hazard...
...Next Time might best be titled Weding for Waiting for Godot. Whereas in Beeken's master-piece we live through the plight of human beings waiting for that never-to-arrive something that will make sense of it all, in Saunders' play we merely hear the playwright's mouthpieces talk about waiting for that something. Beckett did not explain: he showed he dramatized. (There is a lot of truth to the old cliche that the silences are as important as any of the lines in Godot. ) Saunders merely feeds us truisms like "The point is that he existed...