Word: squalor
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...completed picture is not pleasant. The average standard of living in Russia is unbelievably low. Peasant squalor exists around half-destroyed churches containing the art of eight centuries. Loud speakers bleat communist propaganda into stond uncomprehending faces. On the whole, however, life is livable and looks to the future. "Black Bread and Red Coffins" brings a shadowy nation into clear relief. In the prison, in the courtroom, in the Bureau of Marriage and Divorce, and in the village world, representative personalities are etched in living and human detail...
...close friend. James A. Herne, actor-author of onetime famed play, Shore Acres, was another. Garland was one of the discoverers of Stephen Crane; he admired Crane's genius, deprecated his habits, gave him many an ill-received lecture. He venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them all. On a visit to England, onetime Pitcher Garland met Cricketer Conan Doyle. Each upheld his favorite game: Doyle politely doubted...
...Akron, was pursued by Jane Geddes, also from Akron who sought to redeem him. Maurice's wife came to get him, Jane's brother came to get Jane. She, however, had become hopelessly attached to life in the Latin Quarter discovering that indiscretion was the better part of squalor...
...squalor of honest...
...first Manhattan production of the play since the Moscow company visited the city five years ago. Despite the fact that Mr. Laurence's version employs such U. S. colloquialisms as ''bunk . . . all wet . . . caught with his pants down," it preserves the strange compound of squalor and beauty with which the original depicts a sorry crowd of derelicts living in an unspeakable Moscow basement and, like tatterdemalion philosophers, pondering their own destiny and that of the race. In an almost formless succession, each of these is scrutinized by the playwright who strips away the surface tissue and exposes...