Word: squalidity
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...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...
MacArd moved in the direction of an answer when he took passage to India at the turn of the 20th century. One walk through the squalid streets of Bombay was enough to convince him that the Indian way of life was no better than living death. India, he decided, needed the sort of inspiration that had made him and his country great: the go-getting zeal of the American way. His wife had been a devout Christian, so what better memorial ould he build than a gigantic missionary foundation devoted to the raising and training of businesslike Christian-Indian leaders...
...enforced: i) Israel withdraw to the area fixed in the U.N.'s 1947 partition plan (and surrender 2,370 square miles, more than 25% of Israel's total area); 2) Jerusalem must be internationalized; 3) Israel must allow the three-quarter million Palestine refugees, now living in squalid camps throughout the Middle East, to return to their homes. Actually, the Arabs are making no attempt to absorb the refugees, and the U.N. has pledged $250 million on their behalf, of which...