Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more likely the simple arithmetic of inflation on which the election turned. A series of horrendous new figures testifying to Britain's economic plight dropped into the campaign: 1) food prices up 20% in the past year, 53% since the Tories came to power in 1970; 2) a rate of inflation of 12% for 1973; 3) a $9.1 billion balance of payments deficit in place of the $1.4 billion surplus left by Labor 3½ years ago; 4) a January trade deficit of $880 million -an alltime record...
Poignantly, Hearst announced that the S.L.A.'s latest demands were "beyond my financial capability" and that the matter of his daughter's plight "is now out of my hands." Then the publisher of the Hearst Corp.'s San Francisco Examiner, Charles L. Gould, quickly made another desperate counteroffer. The Hearst Corp., he said, would donate the additional $4 million to PIN "provided Patricia Hearst is released unharmed." Gould made it clear that the offer was final. The stage was thus set for the S.L.A. to reach a decision on Patricia's fate: to release...
...former soldier, Solzhenitsyn deeply identifies with the plight of these wretched men. He records "with shame" an incident he witnessed at the front. A sergeant of the Soviet Secret police, on horseback, was using a knout on a captured Russian soldier who had served in a German unit. Staggering, the man was naked from the waist up, his torso covered with blood. Suddenly he cried out to Solzhenitsyn in agony: "Mister Captain...
...seek help in Congress. But despite criticism of the second-class increases by such remarkable allies as Edward Kennedy and Barry Gold water, Congress has been reluctant to intercede in matters it delegated to the new Postal Service in 1970. Many Congressmen remain unmoved by the magazines' plight. A House bill drafted by Representative James Hanley that did not reduce but merely stretched out the phased increases from five to ten years died last summer. The Senate Post Office Committee will soon vote on a similar bill, authored by Committee Chairman Gale McGee...
What Stott illustrates is that for most social scientists in the thirties the plight of the poor became an occasion for sentiment. The ubiquitous appearance of middle class values and virtues in the case histories of "representative" men and families among the unemployed characterized a type of superficial "consensus" social science that effaced individuality and sacrificed real insight for the sake of reassurance. The sharp empirical texture and psychological insight gained by participant observation were often undermined by the brittle emotions that academic writers indulged in. Compassions degenerated into pity, and sentiments became substitute for the tough-minded social analysis...