Word: cesspool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss of innocence. I came here, very naively, to find a glittering community of moral (though perhaps misguided) men and women. I found a cesspool of egomaniacs who are far more interested in themselves, Art, Science, Zen, Catholicism or marijuana than they are in stopping the slaughter we are committing over there. And I found that I was one of them. I came to the right place. Not better or worse than other places, perhaps, but cosmically bigger. Other places aspire to produce Henry Kissingers...
...always menaced, from knowing that you may die any minute-a blow from behind from another inmate, a shot from a guard's rifle-from knowing that your "privilege" of writing letters may be revoked at the guard's discretion, that you may drop without a trace into the cesspool of the prison system, of the hole, isolation, solitary. It is the style of guerilla field diaries. If George Jackson had not been the sort of man, honest, uncompromising and brilliant, that his letters reveal him to be, he would not have been considered a trouble-maker by the prison...
...Christmas card she mailed out last winter was a two-page tirade against her Foggy Bottom enemies. There has been no Secretary of State of whom she has thoroughly approved since John Foster Dulles, who picked her for her present post. "The State Department," she says, "is a cesspool of intrigue, political assassination and character assassination-it permeates the department...
Ripped by two superhighways and three railway lines, the city is now a jumble of smoky factories whose fumes often shroud Mount Fuji in a brown pall. The port area of Tagonoura, once famed for its dazzling beaches, is a stinking cesspool. What has transformed Fuji is Japan's almost mythic urge for quick industrialization-with no environmental safeguards...