Word: squalidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These bleak puppets seek shelter in squalid, motionless routine. Instead of moving toward a comforting resolution, Pinter's plays develop by shedding obscurities until emotions and paradoxes in a situation are uncovered...
...Grand Canal. The palace's ultimate glory was a set of 18th century frescoes by Tiepolo, which depicted the story of Antony and Cleopatra with almost as much flair as the 20th Century-Fox film. With the extinction of the Labia clan, the palace turned into a squalid dump; illiterate boarders spent unknowing nights under the Tiepolos. In 1948, another Spaniard, the wealthy Don Carlos de Beistegui, now 78, rediscovered the palace, as he said, "with a violence of love and passion that no woman has inspired...
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...