Word: squalidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jokes wore thin as the squalid facts about Barney Baker piled inexorably up in the hearing's record. Items...
...still the petulant adolescent and she the woman who can be had but not possessed. Soon Christiane floats away on the superficiality that has always sustained her; Anthony sinks like a stone into the slums "to vanish up obscure alleys, to discover the filthiest restaurants and most squalid lodgings, to fuse with the dirty and the degraded...
...time when Dr. Samuel Johnson could see little difference between life at sea and life in prison, except that at sea there was the added hazard of drowning. Yet Nelson, a parson's sickly son, lived to cast an aura of gaiety and gallantry over the squalid business of being a ship's officer. He was a prudent sailor, a superb professional in the chancy matters of wind, tide, hemp, oak, canvas and gunpowder, at a time when a man-o'-war was a floating firecracker rather than a seagoing IBM machine. Nelson could tell changes...
...these squalid though sometimes cruelly moving episodes, Yozo emerges with a stoic creed-"Everything passes." Almost alone among recent Japanese literary imports, No Longer Human is strikingly free of cherry-blossom reveries and puzzling Oriental character motivations. If the author's identity were unknown, this novel might easily be taken for the work of a U.S. Southern decadent who had lingered long at the café tables of the French existentialists...
...week's end, from Bombay's squalid rows of cagelike prostitute cubicles to Calcutta's exotic Places of the Golden Trees, where the girls regale their more cultivated clients with recitations from Bengali poets, business seemed to be going on pretty much as usual. But one Allahabad prostitute, more militant, went to court, arguing that, by depriving her of her livelihood, the new law "frustrated the very purpose of the welfare state...