Word: cesspool
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...pressure. But such extrapolation should be braved with caution. Viswanathan is but one student among 6,500 undergraduates, and our knowledge of the details of her transgression is still limited and partially speculative. What is clear, however, is that Harvard is neither a city on a hill nor a cesspool of immorality, though in our experience nearly every member of this community aspires to create the former. This incident is hardly paradigmatic, but is instead indicative of the human flaws that plague even those who seem to have it all.In no way have we enjoyed witnessing the fall...
...Everything on the table-loopholes, pork, Bush tax cuts. "And then you gotta have a reform piece," Emanuel hydrofoiled. "Actually, that should come first. Clean up the relationship between lobbyists and legislators, same way we did donors and candidates. This place is a cesspool-gotta address the gifts, free trips, the revolving-door lobbying jobs for staff members...
...today than were those of us who grew up in the dark ages before the 1969 Stonewall riots [which marked the beginning of the gay-rights movement]. But the work must continue. The attacks of Christian Fundamentalists must not be allowed to submerge our gay youth in a cesspool of bigotry and persecution...
Savage Grace, a deadpan chronicle of this cesspool of a household, is presented as a collage of documents and reminiscences, in the manner of the 1982 best seller Edie, another glimpse of self-destruction among the elite. The mlange is repetitive yet oddly incomplete, particularly about the family's finances. The absence of a sustained narrative and the mixed-up chronology demand a slow, close reading. There is no attempt at redeeming social importance, and one wonders why Brooks Baekeland and other central characters allowed such an invasion of privacy. Still, the story is evoked with arresting detail...
...asked this question while inspired by the corruption of mid-’70s New York City—the ’75 Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” showed that even the federal government had given up hope on the cesspool the city had become. Coated in a mob-thriller plot and realist filming techniques, this exploration of the nature of friendship continues to be relevant, amusing, and heartbreaking almost 30 years later...