Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...portress--pay careful attention to the Greek meters and rhythm, which speed up or slow down, depending on the feeling the poet wishes to express. The cast manages to convey the plot to the non-Greek audience, and more often than not we are moved by Helen and her plight...
...tribal people, so much so that the men show a greater interest in a group of aristocrats they meet than they do in the forest and its people whom they came to see. But only the characters emphasize the well-to-do; Ray's film is concerned with the plight of all Indians. And while the film opens with the four men riding in their car, it closes, when they leave, not on them but on the caretaker whose job and security their irresponsible behavior has left in jeopardy. Ray made his film about the middle class because he believes...
Halfway Houses. Government at all levels has become sensitive to the alcoholic's plight-and the enormous damage that he wreaks. Since 1970, when Congress demonstrated Washington's changed attitude by passing an alcohol abuse and alcoholism act, a score of states have enacted laws that remove drunkenness (though not drunken driving) from the criminal statutes. Thus drunks are no longer put in jail. Other places, however, must be provided to receive them. These are called Local Alcoholism Reception Centers (or LARC), where the alcoholics are detoxified. They then graduate to "halfway" houses for outpatient treatment. Because LARC...
...back in February, 200 students satin at University Hall--Harvard's first sit-in in an administration building. Other students shared some of their concerns. The senior class, inviting a Class Day speaker for the first time, asked Martin Luther King, citing his "dramatic linking" of Vietnam and the plight of American cities. King was shot the next week, and his widow replaced him at commencement...
...newly adopted Vietnamese baby boy at the Denver airport in 1968, she joined one of the most exclusive parents' groups in the U.S. Though tens of thousands of South Vietnamese children became orphans that year, fewer than a dozen found homes in the U.S. Moved by the plight of those left behind, Buchanan resurrected a dormant aid organization to provide food and care for the orphans as well as to oil the adoption machinery...