Word: squalidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Squalid Theories...
...most squalid public environment of the U.S.: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screechingclatter...
...Squalid, vicious, mean and stupid, Pinter's characters may seem to deserve all the bad things in life. They are certainly a thoroughly unsympathetic lot, and not one of them ever performs a generous act. They are animals, but first of all they are theatrical animals. They hold the stage like a military position. An actor long before he became a playwright, Pinter writes scenes with which actors can rivet an audience's attention. His stage animals circle and sniff and snarl and claw at each other, and the odor of vitality permeates the playhouse. These animals have...
...week, Cambridge police officers have raided three apartments in the Central Square area, arresting some 30 people on narcotics charges. None of those arrested were students. Police seized quantities of marijuana, hypodermic syringes and a large number of pills which are now being analyzed by state chemists. They photographed squalid living conditions--everything from splintered furniture to a mouldy refrigerator--in the hippie pads...
...ugly, stupid name, and if only she had a prettier one-say, Marguerite-some of her yearnings would be satisfied. Not that Clara was ever exactly sure what she was yearning for. Born in a flatbed truck on a muddy Arkansas highway, brought up in a series of squalid, lice-infested migrant labor camps, Clara simply suffered from a painfully tugging notion that life was a nasty, frightening dream, and that somehow, some day, she would wake...