Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...luncheon, did not dispel that atmosphere. Ford reported on the Cabinet meeting and left the impression that Nixon was far more concerned about the economy than about his Watergate weakness and would not resign. As the angry Senators plunged into a free wheeling discussion of Nixon's plight, Ford felt...
DESPITE ALL of Samuel Beckett's considerable sympathy for the plight of humankind, his plays show little pity for the people who would undertake to produce them. Almost without exception, his theater pieces require magnificent acting and brilliant directorial interpretation for them to work half well on the stage. With little action to portray and only a few clues to Beckett's true intentions, a theater company, particularly one that's not thoroughly professional, sets itself up for tremendous risks when it tries to give life to the playwright's philosophical musings...
...Winnie is enormously difficult, but Hamlin carries it off with extraordinary finesse. Still, Hamlin's rendition of Winnie's lines comes in a rather sing-songey fashion, and this only detracts from the seriousness of the character. Winnie, though partially a comic personage, is no buffoon and her plight deserves more sympathy than this production gives...
...further promote and enrich the fund, Revell Inc. has started to make a series of plastic model kits of endangered animals such as the white rhinoceros and the California condor; each kit contains a leaflet describing the plight of the animal and the fund's efforts to help. Says Christopher Dann, the fund's deputy director: "Besides paying us a royalty, Revell is allowing us to start a dialogue with 800,000 children and to build a constituency for the future...
...dispute illuminates several aspects of the money squeeze now afflicting the U.S. It illustrates the lengths to which banks and their holding companies are willing to go to raise the funds to meet clamorous loan demand from business, and spotlights the plight of the thrift institutions in competing with commercial banks for savings in a tight market. Last week the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks reported that its members suffered a net savings outflow of $350 million in June...