Word: squalidity
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...Janeiro, where luxurious, marble-walled apartment houses with rooftop gardens overlooking Ipanema and Copacabana beaches are flanked by squalid hillside shantytowns, crime is on the rise. Armed robbers often overpower apartment doormen at night and wait to ambush residents returning from evening parties. Bandits jump on buses and force passengers to hand over wedding rings and to empty their wallets and even shoes, where some people hide large bills. The rich are becoming fearful and cautious. At an exclusive dinner in São Paulo given for Antonio Gebauer, a senior vice president with New York's Morgan Guaranty...
During the final few days, Washington tried to capitalize on the growing revulsion, particularly in the Lakefront wards, with the squalid campaign. He took the offensive by publicly confronting baseless rumors that he had been arrested for child molesting. He also aired a powerful television ad that showed a series of violent scenes from America's past: a Ku Klux Klan rally, the assassinations of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the Kent State shootings. It culminated with pictures of Epton supporters jeering Washington at a church on Palm Sunday. "There are moments in our history of which...
...portrait of Harris' selfish, hardhearted, authoritarian father that goes far to explain her longstanding tolerance of Tarnower's ill-treatment. The author acknowledges a sense of identification with Harris ("she reminds me of me"). But that partisanship does not prevent her from leading the reader through every squalid stage of Harris' 14-year affair with Tarnower. The Scarsdale physician, the son of humble Jewish immigrants, was a relentless social climber, impressed by the gracious airs and cultivated ways of the classy, Waspish headmistress. Soon, however, he reneged on his proposal to marry her and embarked...
...level, Peer Gynt is a series of picaresque adventures, a kind of Rapscallion's Progress as opposed to a Pilgrim's Progress. Yet the rich ambiguity of the play lies in the fact that Peer is some sort of pilgrim. In his most squalid escapades, he knows that he is sinning and fumblingly seeks redemptive grace and the meaning of existence. But since, like Scarlett O'Hara, he puts off thinking about the hard questions until tomorrow, he always loses his way. He traces an allegory of man's brief bewildering journey from his mother...
...Only a few people seemed concerned that Adolf Hitler had just come to power in Germany. Even so, the pacifists' victory stirred an outcry. The Daily Express ranted against the "woozy-minded Communists, practical jokers and sexual indeterminates of Oxford," while Winston Churchill deplored "this abject, squalid, shameless avowal...