Word: squalidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking for a better life, thousands of peasants pack up every month and head for the big cities, where they find only deeper poverty and despair. In the Northeast's bustling port of Recife, 40% of the city's 1,000,000 people live in squalid, malodorous mocambos (shanties) strung out along the city's Ca-piberibe River. There is no fresh water, sanitation or electric light, and crime and disease are as oppressive as the millions of horseflies that swarm everywhere. In Rio, more than 600,000 people-15% of the city's population-live...
...deals with the conflict between the American idea of individualism and the Irish idea of the solid family. The occasion for the conflict is the chaotic world of Massachusetts politics in the late 1950's and early 60's. In the 30's and 40's, Massachusetts politics were squalid, sordid, and petty--primarily used as path for personal advancement, much like politics in any other state. But Catholicism with its doctrine of the resourceful steward ("to whom much is given, much is expected") and Puritanism with its sense of mission (John Winthrop's words when founding Boston, "We shall...
Deliberately building a slum for hillbillies might seem an odd way to fight poverty. Except in this case the squalid hollow will be called "Dogpatch," and the developers stand to make a pile. Cartoonist Al Capp, 57, agreed to let a group of Little Rock entrepreneurs use his Yokum hokum in the construction of a sort of yokel Disneyland on 800 acres in the Arkansas Ozarks around Marble Falls. "It will have log cabins and Sadie Hawkins Day races," Capp explained, "and things like family trout fishing, which is a hell of a lot of fun if you aren...
...small cities of Westchester County, Yonkers, New Rochelle, and Mount Vernon, are all of the same mold: a squalid down-town section section with a store that sells foam rubber, another that sells lamps, another with candy and on and on. Most of the people on the streets are Negro, poor. The streets are often crowded with cars as the road system has not kept pace with the increase in population. This is not expensive, nubile Westchester. That is off in Larchmont and Scarsdale. Republican bailiwicks as secure as Eisenhower's Gettysburg farm. Even if O'Connor were vastly imaginative...
Papa Levenson's career was the very opposite of the standard American success story at the beginning of the century. He used to start with money and end up broke. This made life pretty grim in the squalid East Harlem tenement in Manhattan where Papa, a Russian-Jewish immigrant tailor, had settled Mama and his eight kids. But somehow the Levensons never despaired about waging their own American Revolution in the fourth floor back. Particularly Mama. When things looked blackest, she would start a fire in the stove, put a pot of water on to boil...