Word: squalidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Week by week, the opposition between President Eisenhower and Senator McCarthy grows sharper. It is no mere clash of personalities, nor does it arise from the sometimes squalid, sometimes ludicrous irrelevancies of the congressional hearings. It goes to the central issue: Who is going to run the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government...
...materialist heaven on earth-Theologian Gollwitzer called it a "secularized Christian eschatology." Accordingly, they reasoned themselves into a 1984-type "dream world." Russian professors argued that the prisoners must see things "dialectically." For instance, if the Kremlin planned to erect a magnificent city street on a row of squalid huts, it was as good as there already. Hence it should be reported as such to the outside world...
...theme of grim reality punctuates both the filming and the acting. Director Julien Duvivier lets his camera dwell at length upon the filth and vice of the Casbah. He delights in picturing squalid, old women sitting in doorways or sunning themselves upon the endless steps and terraces of the native quarter. Occasionally, however, the emotional implications of both setting and plot become cloying. A scene in which a fat hag tearfully recalls her past success on the stage turns maudlin, while the murder of an informer has all the qualities of an old time serial...
...month for a room. At 24, hospitalized with a mild case of tuberculosis, he began to think about writing plays. Primed on Ibsen and Strindberg, he enrolled in Professor George Pierce Baker's famed 47-Workshop at Harvard. His first published play, The Web, was set in a squalid boardinghouse. Its three main characters (not counting an illegitimate baby in the cradle) were a prostitute, a pimp and a murderer. The play's opening line was: "Gawd! What a night...
...Hall had already pleaded guilty to kidnaping six-year-old Bobby Greenlease (TIME, Nov. 16). The only issue before the jury in Kansas City, Mo. was that of prison or death. Burly U.S. Attorney Edward L. Scheufler demanded death, and started calling witnesses to spell out the crime in squalid detail. A nun's face was pale as she sat with her crucifix in her lap and told of being tricked into releasing Bobby Greenlease from school to go to his "sick mother." Who had fooled her? Sister Morand hesitated, looked around, half rose and pointed at Mrs. Heady...