Word: squalidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cricket at Dartmouth. Here is the surrender of the British at Yorktown, here a glimpse of covered wagons heading West, a brassy photo of Dodge City's Main Street in the 1870s. A picture of a squalid "Bandit's Roost" in the New York of the 1880s turns up close to a sedate shot of Fifth Avenue lined with fashionable carriages. Among Davidson's other exhibits: Dartmouth students playing cricket in 1793, women prospectors on their way to the Klondike, Coney Island in the 1890s, child labor in a Virginia glass factory...
...residents of 20 Walker Street, we were somewhat amazed to find the word "squalid" used in your editorial last Monday. Our living conditions are not "dirty through neglect" or "filthy." (Webster's definition of squalid). On the contrary, we are sure that we have some of the most attractive rooms the college has to offer. Some of them have been repainted and re-wallpapered this year. New carpeting has been put on the stairs. The entire exterior of the building has been repainted, and an improved telephone system is soon to be installed. Some of the emergency doubles here...
Within the limits of Hollywood's self-censoring Production Code, the movie follows the play's story faithfully. Again Blanche Du Bois moves into her sister's squalid New Orleans flat, the last stop on her alcoholic, nymphomaniac flight from a tide of troubles: a long siege of family deaths, the withering away of family fortune, the suicide of her young husband, the loss of her home, her job, her reputation. She still clings to a pretense of genteel propriety. But when she crosses Stanley Kowalski, her roughneck brother-in-law, he drags out her past...
...picture's rumpled sets, James Wong Howe's shadowy photography, the lower-middle-class characterizations, are all well-keyed to a note of squalid realism. The script gives the hoodlum some depth as well as menace; he is stupid, confused, worried sick, and for all his bitterness and bullying, wants eagerly to be liked. The acting is first-rate, not only by Garfield, but by Shelley Winters, deglamorized as the simple, forlorn pickup whose home he invades, by Wallace Ford as her father, grimly swallowing his self-respect, and Selena Royle as the distraught mother...
...refugee from age and from a murder which he has committed. His escape is not complete, but in the few days which precede his arrest he learns to love life once more. His renaissance is that of a martyr, for it takes place in the most squalid of scenes, rubble-ridden Genoa. Here is a drama of courage, and a type of courage which is indeed a social phenomenon in post-war Europe...