Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bruce Jackson, a professor of English at SUNY Buffalo and a former member of the Society of Fellows has collected 55 of the worksongs from Texas prison camps. Together they provide a tragically revealing picture of the plight of blacks in prison camps...
Summer Soldiers concentrates mostly on the plight of a rather vacant...
HOBBIES: Spent time as Brooklyn Field Officer for The International Society for the Protection of Animals in preparation for his political science major's honor thesis on "The Life and Plight of the Common Tabby Cat in Lower Queens During...
...theme of both La Salamandre and Charles Dead or Alive is the plight of "free spirits" in bourgeois Swiss society Charles is the third-generation head of a highly successful family watch-making firm the House of De. The symbolic keynote comes in the opening moments when, at a cocktail party given by the firm. Charles is interviewed by Swiss TV. He toys with the interviewer for most of the five minutes. But his enigmatic answer to the question "Are you a businessman or a watchmaker?" is the opening of a floodgate that ends in his being carried, two long...
...amended and toughened by Congress over their strenuous objections in 1970, automakers have argued loudly that the law's standards for exhaust emissions on '75 and '76 model cars will be all but impossible to meet. For all their efforts, they failed to make their plight quite believable to William D. Ruckelshaus. Earlier this year his Environmental Protection Agency summarily rejected the automakers' application for a delay in the deadline. Last week, in a major change of strategy, General Motors disclosed that its scientists were farther along in meeting the new requirements than company officials...