Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening an informal party was held backstage before curtain time and everyone had a bit too much of his or "her" favorite beverage. As Roger S. Hewlett '33 recounted it: "When the curtain arose disclosing the 'picture'--hero in a tree, cast kneeling before it on the ground--their plight soon became evident. The hero fell headlong from the tree and lay prone on the stage, and when rescue came in was found that the chorus was sound asleep to a man. The curtain redescended immediately...
...Union rightfully is concerned about the financial plight of graduate students. But its concern extends beyond its own pocketbook: prominent among its seven demands is a proposal that would greatly expand student participation in University decision-making...
...DIFFICULT not to be angered by the financial plight of Harvard's graduate students. It is even more difficult to know whom to blame...
...Soviet Union treats its authors, Erskine Caldwell, 69, says that he could hardly care less. During his fifth visit to Moscow, the author of such bestsellers in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre showed little sympathy for the plight of Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose bestselling novels in the West are banned in his own country. Caldwell tartly observed that "there's no law requiring a person to be a writer." He added: "Russian writers must conform to certain ideological rules laid down by society. Maybe that's better than...
Detroit's plight does not result from lavish spending. Its schools have been living frugally for several years, and more so than ever this year when $16 million was slashed from the budget. The schools now must get by with old versions of textbooks instead of buying new editions, and cutbacks have been made in such courses as music, art, remedial instruction and athletics. The teaching staff has been reduced by 350 to 10,500, even though it means larger classes-35 pupils per class, about ten more than the statewide average. Teacher salaries now average...