Word: mucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flat, sometimes excessively precise. Yet the book develops a building power. It is, for one thing, an achievement of almost perfect sympathy. One begins caring about Alex-his guilt, his daydreams, his bewildered adolescent innocence. Descendants of Huckleberry Finn, Alex and his brother do cannonball dives into the polluted muck of an urban river, cracking exuberant and forlorn scatological jokes about what they are swimming...
...surging Susquehanna-to no avail. When the river burst the sandbagged levee, an eight-foot wave surged through Wilkes-Barre's central business district. "My God," a volunteer wept, "we just couldn't do it." Finally, the water receded, leaving a three-inch layer of sour-smelling muck on everything it touched...
Where There Is Muck...
...high places regardless of party. We have the right to know what is going on between these high-salaried public servants and big businesses. Exposure is the only control these rats will respect-they like to operate in secret and behind closed doors. Remember, if there is no muck, there will be no muck to rake...
Forster's was the great age of scruples that tried to save the world with decency and left it in the muck instead. It was a dying age; he knew it, regretted it and would not renounce...