Word: plights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ralph's case is hypothetical. But his plight is a reality for perhaps 5,000,000 American Catholics, many of whom have resolved the conflict by abandoning their faith. Others simply ignore the church's prohibition, continuing to receive the sacraments without official sanction. But there are also Catholics like Ralph who feel morally bound by the stern strictures of canon law and who would rather have a second-class citizenship in the church than none at all. To live this way, as one sympathetic diocesan official puts it, "you practically have to be a religious...
...this first complete account of that war, London Observer Correspondent John de St. Jorre is painstakingly evenhanded in his treatment of the two sides. But the effect of his book upon Western readers already mindful of the sufferings of Biafra is to arouse an equivalent sympathy for the plight of Federal Nigeria, faced with the secession of Biafra's hard-working and highly skilled Ibo tribesmen...
...Dunyazadiad" is a different story (within a story within a story) and a winged horse of a brighter color. In it Barth succeeds with clarity, succinctness and natural ease in creating a modern tale out of the oldest forms of storytelling. It is about Scheherazade's famous plight as told by her younger sister Dunyazade, who sat at the foot of the bed for 1,001 nights while the Shah made love to Scheherazade and was held spellbound by her stories. It may be recalled that before the Shah met "Sherry," as she is known in the bedchamber...
...plight of the Asians is worsened by the fact that they are not really welcome anywhere. Since 1968, Britain has maintained a harsh quota system to control the entry of East African Asians, even though they are British subjects; at present the number is limited to 3,500 heads of household annually, plus their dependents. Some are legally entitled to go to India or Pakistan, but few are anxious to do so. "Britain may have a million unemployed," remarked an Asian mechanic in Kampala, "but in India they are dying of hunger...
...studied have found their motivation and competence challenged by militants who claim that only a black can understand the black experience. The antagonism toward these white sociologists has also spread through the black ghettos, making it difficult for them to continue their research. During the past six months, their plight has been studied by Wilson Record, a white sociologist at Portland State University in Oregon. He interviewed 140 of the estimated 750 white sociologists specializing in race and ethnic relations at U.S. campuses and found that nearly a fourth have abandoned the field of race relations...