Word: filth
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...Christian (Southern Baptist) with a Bible Belt (geographically and disciplinary) upbringing, I'm humbly grateful to Herman Wouk for his mutiny against the filth, pseudo-realism, gutter-slanted "frankness," cynicism and foul language so common in "better" literature today...
...dogs preferred them to trees or fire hydrants, 2) the roof leaked badly after TV Fan Lanza's five antennas were ripped out, 3) a hand-carved piano leg was tooth-carved, 4) all doors had to be rehung. Wailed Mrs. Kaiser: "[Amidst] the debris, dirt, filth and desecration . . . only the ceilings were intact." Couple of days later, a long-postponed suit, brought against ex-Tenant Lanza by another Hollywood landlord asking $17,000 for Lanzarations wrought on another $200,000 mansion, came up for trial, was again put off (so that lawyers could dicker over a cash settlement...
...that such teaching is accepted on the school curriculum by the Board of Education there? . . . Anyone with any normal amount of intelligence isn't going to believe such trash ! "Trash" is certainly the only word for this entire idea. "Love" certainly isn't even connected with such filth...
...patients, it holds 8,200. Its physical plant, dating from the 1930s, is reasonably modern. In its overcrowded red brick buildings, Psychiatrist Dean C. Tasher had seen hundreds of patients drift downhill to the "very disturbed" wards where they persisted in lying naked on the floor in their own filth, and some eventually to the hydrotherapy ward, where they had to be kept in tubs or wet packs for most...
...recent date. For seven months the cameras pored over the choice beauties of Venice, Verona, Siena, and several smaller cities of the golden age. What they recorded is a living image-the curious mingling of the radiant with the sinister, the earthy beauty like a kind of exquisite filth, the spirit itself almost like a shimmer of lust-of the High Renaissance...