Word: filth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shocked by conditions he saw in India: the opium dens of Calcutta, the wandering lepers crying "Baksheesh," the filth and poverty of the villages. "I learned that one meal a day was all the majority of the people could count on . . . In those villages it took no effort...
...When I remember thee in time to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with delight...The dreary deposits of 2,000 years filled with inhumanity, intolerance and filth lie in your evil-smelling alleys...
...welfare work, and the conditions are indeed appalling. But the inhabitants are in most cases not Germans. They are ethnic Germans, Volksdeutsch, expellees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, etc. Loyal to Germany during the war, they have been repaid for this loyalty by being herded into bunkers and lagers in filth and misery...
...Passionate English. The Book of Costume also clearly documents how greatly the distinctive characteristics of nations change with the centuries. Fifteenth Century Italians were clean, reserved, austere: they were shocked by the filth of the Germans. Erasmus was bowled over by the vulgar English tendency to display passion and emotion in public. On the other hand, while skirts rise and fall and puffed knee breeches slowly work their way into peg-top trousers, many surprising similarities exist between far-separated cultures. The woman in the Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back...
Hyenas & Jackals. Like the International Congress of Philosophy (TIME, Aug. 30), the intellectuals divided on the East-West issue. Alexander Fadeev, head sheep dog of the Russian writing pack, called Western culture "disgusting filth" and denounced T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passes and André Malraux. "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens," said Fadeev, "they would write such things...