Word: squalidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parleys on the Green. With his young nation booming, Abdul Rahman looked with increasing fear at the predicament of neighboring Singapore, just three-quarters of a mile across the Johore Strait. There Communism was spreading like an infection among the underfed, underemployed masses in Singapore's squalid, teeming tenement quarters. By strikes, riots and boycotts, the Peking-oriented Communist-front Barisan Socialist Party tried to topple the tottering government glued together by Singapore's shifty, brilliant, Cambridge-educated Prime Minister Lee Kuan...
Overrun by Administrators. Goodman is best known for his writings on the plight of modern youth. Growing Up Absurd argues that today's problem children are the fault of a society that offers them squalid ideals and dull jobs. The behavior of juvenile delinquents and the beats, wayward as it is, is in fact a wholesome protest against adult mores. Writes Goodman. "Our society cannot have it both ways: to maintain a conformist and ignoble system and to have skilled and spirited men to run that system with...
...line, Joan Baez' family became Quakers, but Joan herself is not a Friend. "Living is my religion," she says. She practices it currently on California's rugged coast. She has lived there for more than a year, including eight months in the Big Sur region in a squalid cabin with five cats and five dogs. The cabin was a frail barque adrift on a sea of mud, and sometimes when Joan opened...
Quickly he learns about the conspiratorial friendship and courtesy which seems to exist between Negroes, taught in the same trap; conversely, he discovers the race hatred and race compromise which so often prevent Negroes from unifying for advancement. He learns of the squalid noisiness of the Negro ghetto, where sex, booze, and gluttony are the sole means of forgetting the lifelong barrier that seals them off from real humanity; of the tiny injustices imposed by the white world (Griffin is forever having to walk long blocks just to urinate); and of the bigger injustices that are perpetually evident...
MOTHER (Katharine Hepburn) is a charming, drug-ravaged must-have-been-a-beauty who grew up in a convent and dreamed of becoming a nun. But then one day Father swept her off her feet and into a squalid succession of "dirty rooms in one-night-stand hotels.'' When the morphine came along she was desperately ready for it, and after more than 20 years of the needle her soul is as full of holes as her skin...