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...Reconstruction. But out, too, go the romantic Gay Nineties, when in reality Europe's "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" were pouring through Ellis Island's gates to clot the cities and the mill towns or to be herded into overcrowded tenements, where the only toilets were fetid sheds out in the dark alleys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Best of Times-1821? 1961? Today? | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

Wall Scrawl. "The fetid 10 ft. by 10 ft. cell was windowless, barred and infested with cockroaches, fleas and mosquitoes," Robins later reported of his temporary residence. "A single yellowed bulb in the ceiling burned throughout the night as all the dogs in Christendom howled round us. On the cracked wall opposite the bed there had been scrawled in two-inch letters, MAN WILL DIE BUT THE CAUSE WILL LIVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Fighting Rebels And Royalists | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...slightly higher plane, one cannot help admiring Samperi's creation of a claustral atmosphere that makes believable both the boy's fetid sexuality and the girl's inability to escape his trap without destroying herself and his father. That she finally manages to do so, by reversing their roles, is also accomplished without suspension of belief. It even seems rather courageous and psychologically acute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nastiness, Italian Style | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...Mishima's career may have been a rehearsal for that death. Born to an upper-middle-class Tokyo family, he had a fairly sinister childhood. He was raised as a little girl by his grandmother, who kept him much of the time in her gloomy sickroom. The fetid memories of such an upbringing formed much of the basis of his 1958 novel, Confessions of a Mask. "Something within me responded to the darkened room and the sickbed," he wrote elsewhere. He was fascinated, too, by death, which for him possessed an erotic attraction. His first sexual experience seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Night-Blooming Narcissus | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

Homosexuality is not popular in New Hampshire, and the Governor's position and our newspaper's position against homosexuality entirely aside from being biblically and morally correct, is also politically popular, so this is not an issue that has backfired on Governor Thomson except in the morally fetid atmosphere of Cambridge, Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNPLEASANT SURPRISES | 2/22/1974 | See Source »

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