Word: squalidity
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...sure, there are those who are pleased for reasons of petty partisanship or from a vulgar enjoyment of that dependable old theme, The Mighty Brought Low. But there are deeper reasons for taking satisfaction in the whole squalid affair...
...obscurity ("Decent poverty is really an ideal environment for serious people," he said), Goodman became a kind of youthcult hero in 1960 with the publication of Growing Up Absurd, in which he argued that problem children were the fault of a society that offered them only dull jobs and squalid ideals. Two years later in The Community of Scholars, he attacked the colleges as bureaucratic machines that had proved unable to provide youth with genuine learning. "The ultimate rationale of administration," he wrote, "is that a school is a teaching machine, to train the young by predigested programs in order...
...case, on Mr. Jago's intellectual level, a discourse is clearly impossible and purposeless, and I write only to point to and, hopefully, correct a squalid distortion in his letter. He writes: "In the early 1950's, Camus broke with Sartre because Sartre did not want to print the truth about the Russian concentration camps in Temps Modernes because of the cold war." This is a lucid demonstration of what one had written earlier about Mr. Jago's rigid Cold War stance and the level of his intellectual pretension. He obviously does not know what the issue is all about...
...studio was squalid in those days of 1907, the painting in it, Les Démoiselles d'Avignon (16), struck Picasso's fellow artists as little short of mad. André Derain feared it presaged Picasso's suicide, and its hacked dislocation alarmed Braque, who compared the performance to "someone drinking gasoline and spitting fire." Perhaps it is too simple to say that Cubism "came out of" Demoiselles, for the raggedness, fury and inconsistencies of the canvas were alien to the spirit of calm inquiry that afterward pervaded Cubist painting. But Demoiselles was so extreme that...
...offers some special Wilsonian satisfactions. It is pleasant, he notes among other things, to have the cemetery so close, "where I can look up family dates." Yet his memory of Talcottville as "a clean and trim settlement" soon proves out of date. Some of its houses are "tumbledown" and "squalid," its citizens "ambitionless." Highways are closer and larger. Birch Society posters recommend impeaching Earl Warren. Teen-age motorcyclists ride across the lawn and drink on Wilson's porch, forcing him to scare them away "with a roar and the ancient gun that a Civil War collector in Boonville...