Word: filth
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...Nothing better illustrates what is wrong with this country than Rowan and Martin being called a "success." A similar "success" is Gore Vidal with his incredibly filthy books. If vulgarity, innuendo, bad language, bad manners and filth are what is necessary to be a success in these United States, then we are certainly headed for either total depravity or a sharp reaction with a dictatorship. At the end of the last century, the U.S. was at the dawn of a golden age in literature and culture. We had Longfellow, Whittier, Emerson, Bryant and Whitman. Our former greatness now turns around...
...people crowd into nine square miles of Manhattan south of Central Park, the equivalent of transporting every man, woman and child in Connecticut into Bridgeport and out again each day. From the visible evidence, the sanitation strike might still be on, and blowing papers and scattered heaps of filth testify to perhaps the most
...Hairy Filth. Still, most authors would rather see the Lord Chamberlain concentrate on his other duties, such as arranging Buckingham Palace garden parties and caring for the royal swans. In London's West End, arrangements are now being made to bring back such once banned plays as Jean-Claude van Itahe's America Hurrah and Rolf Hochhuth's Soldiers. "We are at last released from the tyranny of the theatrical leaseholder," says Osborne dryly. "There will probably be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of cheerful, decent, serious...
...know what it is to live in the broken down shotgun shacks of the slums, to smell the stench of the streets and watch the sore festered babies crawl along the floors among the roaches and rats and dirt and filth...
...forget," says University of Chicago Sociologist Jerome Skolnick, "that police are only people," with the same frustrations and prejudices that others of similar backgrounds might have. "No matter what people call you," says Patrolman Kasaras, "you're supposed to contain yourself." The young policeman, adds Reddin, "deals with filth, the dregs of humanity, on a minute-to-minute basis. It's not hard for him to reach a point where he says that people are no damn good, so to hell with people." Yet as Miami Beach's Chief Rocky Pomerance only half-jokingly observes, "a policeman these days...