Word: sordidity
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...children." Julia constantly took refuge in religion, mouthing the words to prayers or ducking into the nearest church of whatever denomination, despite the fact that her own affiliation was ostensibly Jewish. Like Birdie, she had a sad, gentle dignity, a refined fragility that set her apart from the rather sordid affairs of her family. Laving floats in this play like a premonition of the woman Birdie will become--in The Little Foxes we see her twenty years later, trembling and broken after her uneven war of attrition with the Hubbard family, which she marries into--and both characters reflect aspects...
Earlier, some sponsors were accepted with the most cursory of investigations, often after nothing more than a telephone interview. The result: a number of "breakdowns," in which sponsors have not fulfilled their commitment to provide for the refugees until they can fend for themselves. There have been a few sordid instances of outright exploitation or abuse-in Florida, one woman was assaulted by her male sponsor. In most breakdowns, however, the sponsors simply lack resources to support the refugees...
...views of man and the world as Shakespeare's King Lear, Sartre's No Exit, and Beckett's Endgame, then it is wide enough to contain Wilder's warm, gentle, compassionate and hopeful approach. Wilder early reacted against the tradition of naturalism, with its emphasis on the seamy and sordid side of life, and has by nature tended to look through rose-colored glasses. But anyone who can't tell the difference between Our Town and a Kate Douglas Wiggin novel or an Andy Hardy movie is just plain obtuse...
...only do characters in this particular situation comedy have to go the the bathroom; worse, they come out with lines like "I want to drink from the toilet and wash there." This is precisely what Rabe wants us to do--to rub our noses in all that is sordid and smelly in the way of life we've spent so much blood trying to inflict on the rest of the world...
...hail your editorial and plans for merger as the first straight talk about this sordid matter. Indeed I urge you to politicize this important issue and organize students, faculty and staff and all university members who believe in equality to see this matter through at long last and finally lay to rest this sorry Watergate episode of the university. Fran P. Hosken, Women's International Network