Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every self-respecting city seems to want to be hideous with rubble and raw earth, crawling with helmeted workers, snorting earthmovers and angular cranes. These are the signs and portents of the biggest civic building boom the U.S.?or any other country?has known. It goes by the name of urban renewal, but it might also be called emergency surgery. The metaphor is thoroughly consistent. Considerable pain is involved, and sometimes shock. There is inevitable destruction of healthy tissue, the operation is sometimes a failure, and the patient is really sick or he wouldn't be there...
...enough, set out to nail Cesari once and for all. He disguised a score of Marseille cops as everything from priests and petanque players to taxi drivers and dockers, often had them make quick changes at midday while they shadowed Cesari and his henchmen. Several times they discovered raw morphine on incoming freighters ticketed to Cesari's hirelings (one shipment was packed in a carton of snails). But the police were unable to catch Cesari manufacturing heroin-until a laborer named Albert Veran laid out $15,000 for an old stone farmhouse last...
...since the Little Rock crisis of 1957 moved the service to learn a great deal more about riot tactics and weapons. And in Chief Marshal McShane, a Kennedy appointee in 1961, the service got a much-decorated (Medal of Honor, 13 citations) New York City detective with all the raw courage and all the Irish zest that was needed to lead his deputies through bullets and tear gas at the University of Mississippi...
...French and Israelis two each, and the Italians, Dutch, Lebanese and Pakistanis one apiece. Last month Brazil's Banco da Lavoura de Minas Gerais opened up in Manhattan, and last week the Bank of Tokyo Trust Co. opened newly expanded offices as kimono-clad Japanese girls served raw fish and Suntory whisky to customers...
...poetry. In Life Studies, in fact, Lowell discarded the whole allegorical-religious baggage and became directly, fiercely, even embarrassingly, personal. The poems dealt with his immediate family: his father, whom he despised; his mother, whom he tolerated; his grandfather, whom he loved. His verse was often unfashionably raw and impassioned...