Word: squalidity
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...case, I know that Mrs. DuBois's appearance was sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department in honor of W.E.B. DuBois-titular head of the department, and of the projected Research Institute. As such, certain reported remarks on the squalid episode in Sanders Theatre seem a trifle disingenuous. It is surely not enough to merely state that "no one was authorized to say whites were excluded"-for authorized or not, someone evidently said so and succeeded in turning away the Harvard community from what ought to have been a memorable occasion. What is clearly needed is a complete dissociation...
Faced with a desperate shortage of low-cost housing, New York City in 1965 began locating homeless families on welfare "temporarily" in hotels. What started as an emergency measure has burgeoned into a monstrous problem, a squalid way of life. Since January, 1969, the number of welfare families housed in hotels throughout the city -many for periods of one year or longer -has risen from 262 to close to 1,120, and their numbers are increasing at a rate of 10% a month. TIME Correspondents William Friedman and Robert Anson visited a number of such hotels in the city...
...that I look over this rather squalid list," one faculty liberal noted, "I think we may have overemphasized the need for a pure academic. In the Spring we were so afraid of getting a general or a corporation executive, I guess we distrusted the Wall Street-Ropes and Gray influence too much. There are some who wonder if the need for an academic ought to be reconsidered," he added...
...your article [Sept. 21] you state that the Arabs were evicted from their ancient homeland. They were never evicted and this was never their ancient homeland. You mention further that they were driven into the squalid misery of refugee camps. They just picked up their squalid misery and moved it to another location...
Based on Henry Miller's squalid energetic novel, this wretchedly dubbed adaptation is little more than a spineless catalogue of affairs. Where the book had the decency to be pornographic, the film is merely graphic. All the women are passive sex objects, typified by Colette (Elsebeth Reingaard), a 15-year-old imbecile who literally has no idea what the men are doing...