Word: squalidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country that they had to shout down the actors were justified. The immorality of Synge's peasants (they admire a murderer and use words like "shift") was only the ostensible cause of the outrage; what fired the wrath of the groundlings was the fact that Synges' peasants are neither squalid nor maudlin, are not, in other words, the stock stage peasants. (Lorca is the only playwright besides Synge who can write peasant comedies without cliche and condescension.) It is a measure of that first audience's total sympathy with Synge's characters, that when the characters are shown...
Posted throughout Dunbar Vocational High School are cards bearing a Ben Franklin motto: "He that hath a trade hath an estate." The exhortation is hardly needed at the rambling tan brick school on Chicago's squalid South Side. To its 2,300 youngsters, 99% of them Negro, Dunbar is a life raft in a sea of poverty. It is perhaps the most effective vocational school...
Given the chance, the poor people would fill the vacant apartments in short order. About 85% of Beirut's 500,000 people live in apartments, many of them overcrowded. Near the fetid Beirut River and in rubbish-strewn vacant lots across the city 10,000 refugees live in squalid shacks built from flattened kerosene cans. A 1954 master plan for the city has yet to materialize, largely because of soaring land costs that have sent the price of a plot on the glossy Corniche that measures about 50 ft. by 20 ft. from...
...House's refugee resettlement program, unless Jews can participate, are oblivious both to political necessity and the magnitude of the social problem. In protesting the anti-Judaism of the Jordanian government they refuse to give due consideration to the plight of the refugees from Israel who are cooped in squalid camps along the Israel-Jordan border. Blindly indifferent to the angry and resentful anti-Jewish feeling continuously created by the refugee camps, they refuse to help resettle the refugees...
...writes novels, is no exception. Lewis, says Schorer didactically, "was one of the worst writers in modern American literature." But Lewis possessed to a high degree what most stylists do not-the creator's gift for bringing a character or a book to vigorous (and often noisy, smelly, squalid) life...