Word: squalor
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...this mansion had come many men: the lordly rulers of India, the sycophants, the rebels and the humblest peasants of the field. Here Nehru longed to return from the squalor and the wranglings in Bombay. Then came a knock at the door. Quickly Nehru's Oxford-educated daughter, Indira, ran to open it. She expected radio men setting up a microphone for a broadcast that Nehru was to make to the U.S. But the callers were not radio men. They were British police...
...show were Boston's 28-year-old Hyman Bloom and Seattle's 31-year-old Morris Graves. Until the Museum's Painting Curator Dorothy Miller dug him out of a hermit-like existence in a Boston slum, Latvian-born Painter Bloom had been painting in solitary squalor in a little second-story studio...
When Muñoz Marin went back to his native Puerto Rico in 1931, he did not like what he saw there. The poverty-stricken jibaros lived in misery and squalor. There were no gay tropical restaurants in Puerto Rico, no swank hotels...
...which emerged from that survey was not all green and growing-there were the dispossessed and the unemployed, photographs of sharecroppers' children with beaten, intelligent eyes staring up from Asiatic squalor-but the general impression it communicated was that the U.S. would fix such conditions, and that in spite of everything the U.S. would get along all right. The U.S. that emerged from that issue of FORTUNE-through the articles, the charts, the statistics, the figures, the quotations from Walt Whitman, the photographs of nice big factories, wheat fields, mountains, orange groves, and reasonably good, independent-looking people voting...
...more respect-the respect due a scholar and a man who for nine years held a position in Lloyd's Bank. Of The Waste Land Smith observes that "in addition to this form of a literary medley, Eliot seems to have caught from Pound [a] morbid preoccupation with squalor.-" But he agrees with "the best of all living American critics" (Edmund Wilson) that "Eliot, in ten years' time, has left upon English poetry a mark more unmistakable than that of any other poet writing English...