Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name, Bao Ruo-want and oriental feature. From a historical point of view, his country had stood up after being humiliated by the Western powers and Japan. The effort was a collective one, and equality between peasant, inmate, intellectual and warder was enforced, even if it was a wretched plight to share. As he says, "We didn't have any illusions about flying the coop." Things were pretty much the same outside the walls...
Pirates of Penzance. The very model of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, featuring one of their most famous patter songs and centering on the paradoxical plight of poor Frederick, a young man only five years...
Pirates of Penzance. The very model of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, featuring one of their most famous patter songs and centering on the paradoxical plight of poor Frederick, a young man only five years old. Presented by the Boston Light Opera Company, at Madeleine Lee Theatre, 140 Clarendon St., through March. Performances Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday...
...mentally sick. "You had to admit to the doctors that you were ill. In the beginning, I argued. Then I came to the conclusion that they were right." Plyushch's cause was taken up by Amnesty International, a London-based organization that seeks to dramatize the plight of political prisoners. The Communist parties of France, Italy and Britain demanded his release. Presumably, it was in response to pressure from European Communists that Soviet authorities released Plyushch from the asylum last month and let him go into exile...
Busing is not Wallace's only issue. He constantly bewails the plight of the middle class who, he says, pay all the taxes and get all the abuse. He fears that the middle class will be "radicalized" if inflation is not brought under control. Since returning from his first European trip last fall, Wallace has stressed the need for good relations with U.S. allies. But he still fervently opposes most foreign aid, and he is caustic about détente. "I think the Russians have out-détented us." If he were President, he says, the U.S. would...