Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In his directorial debut, Finney, who also plays the title role, has taken on a stupefyingly familiar theme: the writer who has sold out to Mammon. Wretched in his wealth, Charlie stumbles through life drunk, debauched and dull, until he decides to go home again to revisit his ex-wife...
Ferber has broken quite a few laws in the last several years. He spent most of his spare time as an undergraduate at Swarthmore College working in the civil rights movement in Chester, Pa., through the then embryonic Students for a Democratic Society. Their goal was to clean up some...
Sir: Wretched Humanity, terrorized in China, Southern Arabia and Yemen; dying of hunger in India and Palestine; beset by war in Nigeria, the Near East and North and South Viet Nam; stifling in slums and poverty the world over; and enslaved in East Germany and countless other nations.
The speech was marked boldly and unmistakably with the thought of Franz Fanon, author of The Wretched of the Earth, as Carmichael propounded a sort of you-wear-them-down-from-the-outside--we'll-wear-them-down-from-the-inside tactical philosophy.
... The most fortunate consequence of the recent controversy is that almost everyone seems to understand that the issues raised by it are vexing ones, and cannot be resolved by glib critical formulae or reassertions of established practices. It is for this reason that I tried to avoid the concept of...