Word: filth
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...seen the workings of the Daley political machine. I've seen the corruption of urban police departments. But nothing can compare with the filth of faculty politics...
...other hand I was really not prepared for what I saw in Saigon. There are three and a half million people in Saigon, a city which was built for one tenth that number. The noise, the filth, the smog are overwhelming. The city is full of Hondas bought with American money. There are little kids everywhere begging. There are lepers in the streets. At night, when it quiets down, you can hear the artillery firing into the countryside...
...best way to sum up what Saigon looks like is that it is a caricature of the worst aspects of any American city I have ever seen. The slums, thenoise, the filth. In addition is the apparent massive destruction of a culture. You have all these people who were driven off the farms and whose main problem is how to stay alive through American money. It is getting hard to do because of the inflation. People I spoke to have two or three jobs just to pay for food...
...protect himself against street thugs. Seated alone at an adjacent table was a sullen, self-conscious political comer named Adolf Hitler. "I could easily have shot him," Fritz Reck wrote in his diary four years later. "If I had had an inkling of the role this piece of filth was to play, and of the years of suffering he was to make us endure, I would have done it without a second thought. But I took him for a character out of a comic strip, and did not shoot...
...candy and food wrappers, dirty Kleenex; they don't even use subways, where the stench is often not to be believed. As a Manhattan dog owner, I spend a good deal of each day looking at this city's streets and gutters. Most of the debris and filth is left behind by humans, not dogs...