Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support her, if a woman can't stand staying home with her preschool children at the most crucial stage of their lives, what in the world did she have them for? Who is supposed to run these round-the-clock child-care centers-robots? Men? Other downtrodden women? I raised four children and it was a labor of love, but I have no desire to raise someone else's children. In my opinion, it has nothing to do with Women's Liberation but is just plain passing the buck...
Calvert is seeking a balanced approach. "If you allow military training to get downtrodden and produce only intellectuals, you have officers who can't work with enlisted men. But if you emphasize the production of officers to the exclusion of everything else, you'll end up with fine-looking, dedicated people who are a little vacant...
...jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance." The essence of her view seems to be a sort of humane pessimism about violence. Dreams do not come true, she asserts with Marx. "The rarity of slave rebellions and uprisings among the disinherited and downtrodden is notorious; on the few occasions when they occurred, it was precisely 'mad fury' [in Sartre's phrase] that turned dreams into nightmares for everybody...
Similarly, the musical Purlie, fashioned from the straight play Purlie Victorious, which opened on Broadway in September 1961, has become peculiarly quaint. The downtrodden, stereotypical Negroes whom it portrays seem uncannily unreal. Blacks have taken large, if not mighty, strides forward from the Purlie Victorious caricature, as much in their own minds as in white eyes...
McCann said he is trying to unify the two factions to work together for social equality for the downtrodden worker. He wants to remedy the problems of 30 percent unemployment and of discrimination in the job and housing market...