Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calling her "my son" in the days following Sand's father's sudden death; the time she heard an echo and thought she had two selves. Luckily, Barry quickly abandons these naive explanations, admitting they are not the sole key to Sand's life, becoming more sympathetic to the plight facing a woman writer attempting to break out of traditional roles...
...plight of Bed-Stuy is extreme but easily recognizable to any big-city mayor in the region. After trimming its payroll by 20% over the past two years, New York City must make additional cuts to meet Mayor Abraham Beame's promise of a balanced budget by June 30, 1978. New York Governor Hugh Carey this week will announce details of a further squeeze in public services to keep the state solvent...
Bukovsky is committed to calling the world's attention to the plight of the political prisoners in Soviet jails, concentration camps and prison psychiatric hospitals. His last cell at Vladimir, a fortress-like penitentiary, was shared by four men. It was excruciatingly small: Soviet prison regulations allow for only 27 sq. ft. of space per prisoner. There was so little room that Bukovsky spent most of his days sitting cross-legged on his bunk, reading. After the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. signed the Helsinki agreement last year, Bukovsky recalled bitterly, even journals from other Communist countries were taken from...
Where Playwright Rudkin eventually falters is in trying to make private grief a metaphor for public sorrow. In a long and wrenching monologue, he tries to link the childless couple's plight to the nightmare horrors of Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, Rudkin is a dramatist who welds theater to life as too few playwrights tend to do. With this production the Manhattan Theater Club reconfirms its status as an oasis of fresh drama under the venturesome leader ship of its artistic director, Lynne Meadow. She has been joined in this instance by Joseph Papp and his New York Shakespeare Festival...
...action in Marry Me is simple and complete, but with no one to hold it together. Its hero's plight is neither real enough to attract our sympathies, nor is his method of dealing with it courageous enough to merit our admiration. As a novel, Marry Me fails; but with some paring, it's a property Lee Strasberg might be interested...