Word: filth
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...mess is typified by New Orleans' Parish Prson, a putrid pen built in 1929 to hold 400 prisoners. It now contains 850?75% of them unsentenced. Money and guards are so short that violent inmates prey on the weak; many four-bunk cells hold seven inmates, mattresses smell of filth and toilets are clogged. Prisoners slap at cockroaches "so big you can almost ride them...
...administrative ceiling of $166 a month on rents, the result was catastrophic. Hotel cases began to climb, and the length of stay stretched out. It is now an average 4½ months. Many fatherless families live in places like the Hamilton Hotel, where they huddle in one or two filth-encrusted rooms, some of the children dull-eyed and incoherent from illness, the adults too confused and helpless to ward off the misery or the rats...
...takes more than an intelligent novelist to bring off what Gardner has attempted. That "good" exists in filth and inspired lunacy is a common enough idea; Agathon is a good personification of it. To prove that good can rise from its wreckage and triumph requires a breadth of vision and a moral force The Wreckage of Agathon lacks...
...watched. This fall, they put out an underground paper called the Mad Hatter. According to a local attorney, the school committee reacted to its four-letter words "as if they had come on the first copy of Das Kapital." The members banned the sheet from the school, calling it "filth" and "insanity...
...during the past two summers, Curby and his associates at Sias Laboratories in Brookline, Mass., discovered that auto exhaust and industrial fumes create a new atmospheric phenomenon-a layer of "dead sky" composed of tiny, concentrated particles. Unmoved by either wind or rain, the ever thickening mass of filth hovers over Boston-and presumably other cities. The stagnant cloud has a faint silver lining: while making Boston's rain heavier, it will divert major storms from the city. The researchers do not yet know the dead sky's effect on human health...