Word: squalidity
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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...
When soldiers pillaged and burned the Trappist monastery at Yangkiaping, writes Grady, the 75 Chinese monks of the community were made prisoners and were led from one squalid mountain jail to another, ''ill fed, poorly clad, roughly treated, along a veritable 'way of the cross,' during which 27 of them died, and at the end of which six others were publicly executed." At the end of his article, Father Grady ists the names of 66 priests, lay brothers and nuns killed in China from 1946 to 1950, and 36 others who died in prison or immediately...
...sounds. The Pentagon can't send more people until there is more housing. Already at lonely Eielson, troops are living in portable Fiberglas and canvas shelters. At Fort Richardson, 1,100 men are crammed into a new 500-man barracks; officers and noncoms with families live in squalid hovels, pay extortionate rents. The Air Force had long had to beg Congress for its Alaskan housing money. Now costs are enormous: a prefab house that would cost $9,800 in the U.S. costs $50,000 by the time it is freighted to Alaska from Seattle and erected at the going...