Word: sordidly
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...rising above the set prejudices of both liberals and conservatives, Coles helps depolarize a divided society. He has performed one of the most difficult and important feats of all: to criticize America and yet to love it, to lament the nation's weakness-es?its "greedy, monopolistic, avaricious and sordid sides"?while continuing to cherish...
...unifying principle, the images betray an artificial sense of indeterminacy: church icons, an eagle, the color orange, the children, a shepherdess and a shepherd, the fortress and the arbor, all these comprise a fabric of pretentious love and meaningless hatred. On a note of tragedy the tapestry grows sordid, but Cyril is so consistently enervated even the tragic sensation becomes a cheat...
...earlier testimony in closed sessions, Mayoral Assistant Jay Kriegel, 31, whom Lindsay has called the "best staff man in America," had admitted going to the mayor in 1967 with the sordid details of police crime that Detective Frank Serpico and Sergeant David Durk had given him. By the testimony of Durk and Serpico, Kriegel came back to them to report that the Lindsay administration was concerned about possible ghetto rioting and did not want to upset the police...
...play consists of the two women--the mother and Catherine--giving their versions of Sebastian's character. His mother worships him, and refuses to admit any flaws. Catherine, under the influence of a truth serum, tells what he was really like, and the sordid way he died...
...genuine hero to emerge in the course of the sordid hearings, George Burkert, 23, was repeatedly interrupted by applause as he told how he rebuffed every effort by the cops to shake him down. A nighttime tow-truck driver, Burkert was constantly harassed by the police for not playing ball. He was handed tickets for a variety of niggling offenses, such as not turning on his license-plate light. Once he was issued 13 parking tickets in 26 minutes while he was sitting in a station house where he had been taken by the cops. Two police captains even paid...