Word: squalidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critic Pritchett concedes that Joyce had humor and "the imagination to turn his squalid people into giants first. No one can say that the characters of Ulysses are trivial in dimension, even though their preoccupations are mean, food-stained, dreary and unelevating. His people are Celtic monsters, encumbered by the squalor of their enormous burden of fleshly life-enormous because it is so detailed-and the dreadful, slow, image-spawning of their literal minds . . . One can see that, in Joyce's imitators, the interior monologue was a blow for democracy, a rather dreary one; the fact that...
...Black Nation. Cursed beyond most corners of Elizabeth's empire with a hellish climate and a poverty that festers through vast acres of its capital city in some of the world's most squalid slums, Nigeria is nevertheless an optimistic and happy land. An all-black nation whose non-African residents number only 16,000, it has no notion of the meaning of apartheid or Jim Crow. Eager for and already well on its way to self-government, Nigeria bears no grudges. "Why should we be anti-British?" Nigerians are likely to answer if queried...
...movement and armor would do to France's static infantry. Above all, he knew that Hitler was not Kaiser Wilhelm I, "the old gentleman who took Alsace Lorraine from us," but a modern Genghis Khan. He knew that Laval, "the Robert Walpole* of the rabble," was squalid and detestable; that Pétain was a defeatist who had to be "kicked into" his victories in World War I, and in World War II, in the absence of all effective French arms, could only snuffle about the lack of carrier pigeons. But filling the canvas with idiots, crooks and poltroons...
Stoned to Death. In Jericho, 20,000 Arab refugees from Israel poured out of their dismally squalid camps and rampaged through a model-farm school, established for their benefit by U.S. and Middle Eastern philanthropists, breaking windows, smashing incubators, and killing or stealing 10,000 chickens and 3,000 turkeys. Next the mob burned down a warehouse containing $60,000 worth of clothing which an American Mennonite mission had planned to distribute to the refugees as gifts. In the little town of Bethlehem, usually host to thousands of Christian pilgrims at this season, another mob stormed a police station; police...
...From its mines French engineers dig vast supplies of manganese and one-sixth of all the world's phosphates. In its bustling seaside cities, linked by fine new railroads, roads and telephone wires, skyscrapers and modern factories tower above native medinas built before France was France. Casablanca, a squalid fishing port until the French arrived, is now a modern metropolis...