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Word: cesspool (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punctuates the scholastic calendar, Chips' missus (Petula Clark) becomes the victim not of childbirth but of a V-l rocket. Still, the boys are the same deferential crew; the school is ivied and kind, an eon removed from the kind of place Orwell considered "a tightrope over a cesspool." The only instance of sadism, in fact, is the disastrous decision to make Goodbye, Mr. Chips a musical. As a result, Leslie Bricusse was given license to inflict ten songs. Like the pupils' Latin lessons, the lyrics will not pass scrutiny ("He smiled. I smiled. We smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Master | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...pleasures of boys and other toys, and with a searching kiss on the mouth by which Edward welcomes his favorite, Gaveston. It ends with a death scene in which Marlowe dredges the most profound pity up from the most nightmarish sensationalism: the deposed king dragged from the castle cesspool, half mad and dripping with muck, washed and soothed and kissed by his murderer in the lingering tender dialogue with which a frightened lover is put to sleep. Then smothered with a feather blanket, crushed beneath an upturned table. Then legs up, and the flaming retribution for pederasty, a cauterization evidenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage Abroad: A Double Crown | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...grateful for your interest in clean water and in helping to make the public aware of areas of pollution [Aug. 1]. However, as mayor of the city of Erie, I take exception to your inference that all of Lake Erie is a cesspool. We are a tourist area, and Erie's beaches and boating facilities are open, and have been open for many years. Last year more than three and one-half million people visited Erie's Presque Isle State Park. Sixty lifeguards man eleven beaches on the park. These beaches are tested weekly by the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 22, 1969 | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Some lake! Industrial wastes from Detroit's auto companies, Toledo's steel mills and the paper plants of Erie, Pa., have helped turn Lake Erie into a gigantic cesspool. Of 62 beaches along its U.S. shores, only three are rated completely safe for swimming. Even wading is unpleasant; as many as 30,000 sludge worms carpet each square yard of lake bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Cities: The Price of Optimism | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Adlow said that the ambiguity of "redeeming social value" saved Naked Lunch, a book he termed to be "the nearest thing to a literary cesspool ever produced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Sister George' Killed | 3/12/1969 | See Source »

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