Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near heroic stature. We're all used to reading about the Yastrzemskis and Jacksons and the other superstars who have the fat salaries, fancy apartments, and women in every city. But we seldom hear about the 95 per cent of ballplayers who never get to the majors, about the plight of the minor-league ballplayer who lives on $600 per month...
Ford, in posing the problem this way, misrepresents more than New York's plight. The choice is not between inflationary government spending and freedom. It is between spending for services such as Social Security, food stamps, health care and education or spending for defense and helping out big corporations. Budget deficits and inflation stem from massive defense spending and inept Nixon and Ford economic policies rather than Federal social programs...
Nikki Giovanni brandishes a strong ego, believing that it wards off exploitation. But that's not the way things work out. She recognizes the model's plight as a person whose deeper attributes will probably never be allowed to surface: "Being pretty has always had drawbacks for Black women; being beautiful is our natural state." Yet similar qualms about the image of herself that has been most widely spread don't seem to figure in her mind. Smugly, she explains that writing is the only pastime she is fitted for--her lone skill--and publishes without bothering to catch...
...this comment is not really effective, for Theresa's plight is never totally convincing. One can only look to the book's sensationalistic subject to explain why Looking for Mr. Goodbar has been found on the best-seller lists...
...black. Wrote Lawyer Walter Barnett in Sexual Freedom and the Constitution: "It is easy to stand up for the right of a black as a human being, but hard to side with a 'queer.' No matter how closely the white civil rights enthusiast tries to identify with the plight of the Negro, blackness can never rub off on him. The aura of 'immorality...