Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Into the ship-shaped house of an aged English sea captain (Maurice Evans), himself the voice of a more high-mettled era, there troop, like creatures into the Ark, a ruling-class woman, a femme fatale, a shy, dashing Englishman, a footless, philandering one, an upstart capitalist, his kind, downtrodden factotum-even an unexpected burglar. At the opposite end, in the assemblage, from grizzled old Captain Shotover is bright-eyed young Ellie Dunn, standing for the future as he for the past, proving most malleable as he is most...
...Arab tribes invaded the area, driving before them a batch of captives from the unwarlike Baluba people. When the Lulua finally drove the invaders off, the captives settled down happily in Luluabourg as voluntary serfs of the Lulua -a state of affairs that persisted until last January, when the downtrodden Baluba finally began to listen to Albert Kalondji, a Baluba politician who told them that they deserved to own the land they tilled...
...legislation and legislators he belabored had no desire to change labor's hard-won basic rights. Today's miner, at $24.25 per diem, could hardly be called downtrodden. (Nor could John L. Lewis, still the $50,000-per-year U.M.W. president and a power in the National Bank of Washington as well.) The concern of Congress and of the U.S. in 1959 is the gangsterism and brutality that infest the unions and threaten the working man. With oratory and belligerence out of the past, John L. Lewis was fighting for a cause already won, defending a crime against...
There is no good reason to slip on down to the Brattle this week; any book would be easier going. The Red and the Black deals exam period diversion a death blow. Claude Autant-Lara has allowed himself to be carried away with the pathetic figure of a poor downtrodden peasant of the French Empire. He fails to recall that Stendahl saw Julien Sorel's answer to constricting French society as understandable, but not laudable. Sorel is no hero of the poor, he is simply the unfortunate...
Later in his speech Butler launched a diatribe on Administration foreign aid policy. He called for a greater emphasis on economic assistance to the "downtrodden who struggle to realize their aspirations for a better life...