Word: dickensian
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...living in some 6,000 institutions throughout Italy. "Many of these children are thirty times worse off than in juvenile prisons," said Luciano Infelisi, 30, a reform-minded Rome district attorney who organized the surprise raids in the capital. "They would live better if they had committed crimes." The Dickensian situation is largely the result of inadequate government control. Though 90% of the institutions are related to church organizations, ultimate responsibility for their supervision rests with the notoriously inefficient National Organization for the Protection of Mothers and Children...
...trusting man and an indulgent father. Despite superficial pragmatism, he never quite cracks the code that relentlessly governs life around him: that the truth is always the opposite of what it appears to be. For Farragan every encounter ends in shock; every shock releases in the author an almost Dickensian, genial savagery...
...gone by then." Being a Disney Wrongo, instead of speeding up the process he merely abducts his rivals to a pastel pays, from which the troupe works its way back chez eux. En route, the plains and suburbs produce a supporting cast that is nothing less than Dickensian. Among the featured players: Roquefort the intrepid mouse, a scatsinging feline jazz band from the era of Sidney Bechet, a pair of American expatriate hound dawgs with IQs slightly lower than Corner Pyle's-and, most important, O'Malley, the alley cat. O'Malley's voice, as supplied...
...Megastructure. Two other large projects reflect the problems and promise of starting a campus from scratch. The 14,000-student campus for Rochester Institute of Technology was designed by five different architectural firms with mixed .results. At one end of the scale, some of the buildings look like neo-Dickensian piles of brick. But the campus is saved from mediocrity by Architects Kevin Roche & John Dinkeloo. Charged with the design of five buildings, including a student union and facilities for physical education, they began by recognizing the harsh climate. In Rochester in winter, it is cold outside. What might have...
Pritchett's voice is slightly cockney, a tone entirely appropriate, as it happens, to his subject. For his heart belongs to that peculiar, sprawling, provincial, shabby, comic, still Dickensian conglomeration known as Greater London. That, too, is for the best. Social comedy like Pritchett's might easily turn sour if it were not based on a heart that resists transplant...