Word: filth
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...they caught an age for all time, with all its grace and majesty and the sordidness that lay beneath. A Constable landscape may be a vast vista of perfect peace; but Hogarth is not far behind to remind one, like a conscience, that art must also deal with filth, poverty and disease. The Mellon collection gives a fresh view of a time of stunning versatility and charm. To the English, art was a craft to be perfected with loving care, and the grace note was often as important as the thundering chord. Yet, when no longer seen through the haze...
...what prompts me to take pen in hand. His snide, destructive diatribes couldn't provoke me to write in the past, and it isn't that this last piece of his has struck a new low. He has delivered himself of this caliber of filth before. It's just that I've had enough...
...snatches up innocent victims like Achilles, inflames them and casts them off. Ann is supposed to be bitchy, but Miss Vogel is too callous to make me believe she could arouse anyone's lust. Peter Gaylord (Peter Hoagland) loves Ann Timmons and wants to take her away from the filth of Cambridge to Cape Cod, where he teaches high school. He stands for the home truths: love over lust, sincerity in place of affectation. But again I don't believe a real Ann Timmons would ever sit with him at the Casa-B, much less leave the Square with...
...Sexus was published, Durrell cabled him: "SEXUS DISGRACEFULLY BAD WILL COMPLETELY RUIN REPUTATION UNLESS WITHDRAWN REVISED." In an accompanying letter, he scolded his master: "The moral vulgarity of so much of it is artistically painful . . . The new mystical outlines are lost, lost ... in this shower of lavatory filth which no longer seems tonic and bracing, just excrementitious...
...what he says does not often contribute to international amity. While visiting Korea in 1956, for example, Ellender announced that the South Koreans, then considered good U.S. allies, were nothing better than "bloodsuckers." He found the public market in Mogadishu, Somalia "untidy," but nothing as compared with the "filth" of those in Addis Ababa. He noted that in Nepal "the streets were filled with people. Apparently the citizens do not work very much...