Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walzer acknowledges that the struggle tired him out and claims he lost a year of research while fighting. And while declining to answer any questions about the matter, he adds, "Sure I'm tired and sure I'm downtrodden, but to conclude that that's why I stopped the screening is just wrong...
...poor, between First World and Third World, they went to Marxist analysis and decided that the problem is capitalist oppression. For a solution of its ills, they went to Christian thought and Scriptures and concluded that Christians have a spiritual mandate to struggle on the side of the downtrodden. Jesus himself, they point out, citing the fourth chapter of Luke, declared early in his public life that he had come "to preach good news to the poor . . . to proclaim release to the captives . . . to set at liberty those who are oppressed...
Critics see him as an irresponsible rabble-rouser out to destroy democratic government. To his admirers, he is the champion of the downtrodden, a political savior who has emerged from retirement to save them from what they see as despotic rule. The independent-minded son of a minor Bihar state official, Narayan at the age of 19 used a $600 wedding gift to set off alone to the U.S., where he studied at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin and became a convert to Communism. Returning to India, he became deeply involved with Gandhi and Nehru in the independence movement...
...subverts the authority of the lords temporal and their feudal privileges by proclaiming the supremacy of the nation-state. Her real visions, then, are of the dawn of the age of democracy, and her real voice is the vox populi. She is, to Shaw, a saint of the downtrodden masses. And in the course of the play, she spouts enough demagogic cant about the rights of the individual to run for office herself...
Died. George Baker, 59, creator of the World War II cartoon anti-hero Sad Sack; of cancer; in Los Angeles. A draftsman at Walt Disney studios, Baker found his vocation only after joining the Army in 1941. His haplessly snafued Sad Sack became the image of the downtrodden G.I. doomed to a perpetual losing battle with his own top sergeants. Said Baker: "Many people lead a life of disappointment in one way or another. Nobody is completely happy or contented...