Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Padded Season. Aggravating the writers' plight are two recent develop ments: the cutback in network prime-time shows, which reduces the demand for scripts, and the growth of 90-minute or two-hour programs that often employ only one writer, instead of several for four half-hour shows. Most depressing, for viewers as well as writers, is the pathetically truncated, rerun-padded season. The networks now routinely air only 22 original shows, instead of 36 as in earlier years. The shortened sea son has meant that nearly one-third fewer scripts are needed...
...many teachers and recent college graduates with liberal arts degrees find themselves unwanted, and managers in the over-50 set who were forced to take early retirement and itch to get back in the saddle are pounding the streets. Ross Kalegi, owner of an Akron employment agency, describes the plight of one: "He was making $18,000 a year as a sales executive at a rubber firm, but he was forced to retire at 57. He isn't worth anywhere near his old salary on a new job, so he turns down everything we refer...
...cope with her slavery. Although she stubbornly retains the dignity of her native culture, she responds to the tortures of the French masters of Guadeloupe with mere surliness and escape. She realizes, as only a few of her fellow sufferers initially do, that there is no cause for her plight beyond the power of the slave-drivers. But Schwarz-Bart leaves to her daughter the ability to retaliate significantly...
...consolations as marriage, Freud, and the accomplishments of applied Marxism seem to offer. She is increasingly haunted by a vision of society's collapse, and maybe the world's-a coming darkness which at best will bring with it changes so radical that such things as the plight of the individual ego, for instance, or Women's Lib, will "look very small and quaint...
...soppy where Chuff and Philomela are concerned, but it cleverly explores Blake's romantic notion that men and animals are similar victims of a society that, practically from birth, puts them both in a series of cages. As he pursues his life of humanitarian crime, Chuff ponders the plight of men and animals, and very satisfactorily reflects on the loyalties and limitations of the British class system with a clear eye and an absence of rancor and cant that should delight the ghost of George Orwell...