Word: squalidity
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Morris speaks feelingly of brotherhood, but what he practices is more like Big Brotherhood, the slightly proprietary snobbism of a global planner confined to one squalid room and one underdeveloped mentality. He is a demon of uplift ("talking helps") and tries to tempt Zach's palate with a wedge of pie in the sky-a farm the two brothers will buy and work. But Zach, a man of profound instinctual sanity, is slow to sublimate. "I'm sick of talking, man, I want a woman," he says. Morris fobs him off with a pen pal ("18 years...
Underlying many of these ideas is the observation that home situations in depressed neighborhoods often prevent meaningful learning. What Lowe wants to do, both in the schools and at the Boys' Club, is to counter the ill-effects of apathetic or drunken parents and squalid living conditions at home. If for no other reason, Lowe wants to maximize education simply to district children from corrupting home environments. Lowe feels that if classes were more interesting and useful to students, and teachers more interested and receptive. Roxbury could become a good place to love in less than a generation...
Disappointing Magic. As permanent parts of the city landscapes, some of the older slums are getting paved streets, electricity, running water. TV antennas are beginning to sprout above tin roofs; once in a while a relatively imposing dwelling thrusts above the squalid huts. But no major Latin American city has been able to cope with the ever-growing demands for housing. At least 400,000 new low-cost urban housing units are needed in Venezuela, 400,000 in Chile, 500,000 in Argentina...
Ever since Forrestal's death, people have wondered why such a splendid career came to such a squalid end. For James Forrestal was an outstanding public servant, a key figure in the crucial postwar years. He was indeed a man of parts, but whose parts did not seem to mesh. He was, on the one hand, tough and commanding; on the other, sensitive and guilt-ridden. Now Arnold Rogow, a political science professor at Stanford, has skillfully pieced the parts together in a first biography of Forrestal...
...best material in the Advocate is that which is most simple stylistically. Frederick Fields' taut etching of a squalid beat marriage-of-convenience that's lost its charm, has an arresting present-tense immediacy...