Word: squalidity
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...Goldfarb '64--have written here with originality or freshness. While Advocate editors have become more aware of the professionals writing today, its writers have confined themselves to two shoddy genres developed by the New Yorker: the "my childhood with snakes in Ceylon" and the "my coming of age in squalid surroundings" genres. Advocate poets not only write imitation Ginsberg and pseudo-Lowell these days; they all write about pigeons...
Elsewhere there were other hints of a change in the equation of world affairs. In Ghana, where Kwame Nkrumah, one of Africa's last China lovers, had been ruthlessly consolidating a squalid little tyranny for nine years, a cadre of young colonels took advantage of the Redeemer's visit to Peking to redeem their nation from his rule...
...companies and the booming construction industry, not enough competent administrators to channel oil revenues into properly planned projects, not enough trained government officials willing to make decisions. Rents and prices have more than doubled in five years. On the outskirts of Tripoli, Benghazi and Tobruk have grown up squalid Bidonvilles where thousands of Bedouins, attracted from the desert by the lure of the city, live in houses made of shipping crates and lift vans, vainly waiting for wealth to come to them. Meanwhile, the desert is slowly but inexorably encroaching on agricultural land abandoned in the rush to the cities...
Xavier Domingo, a 36-year-old Spaniard who works as a literary journalist in Paris, has chosen to write about a civic "nightmare"-the 1961 police action against the sub-proletariat of Algerians living in the squalid city outskirts-in terms of a real nightmare...
...Ireland," said George Moore, "is a fatal disease." Author John McGahern gloomily agrees. In The Barracks, a first novel of keening intensity, he called the disease cancer and described how a woman dies of it in a squalid Irish village. In The Dark, his second novel, he calls the disease despair and describes how it drains and ultimately destroys a young man of talent...