Word: squalor
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...Kalandars, the community that owns the bears and other performing animals, were originally a nomadic people in Northern India. Now urbanized in India's towns and cities, they live in squalor. Their children are indeed treated like the bears: they are malnourished, filthy and illiterate. But the bears have become these people's livelihood and their pets: they like to be cuddled and miss their human families when separated. One possible compromise is to let existing performers remain with their owners, as long as they guarantee proper care, but prevent any new bears, owls, monkeys and snakes from being smuggled...
...with grace, character and social conscience. Had de Klerk addressed the fact that those who benefited from apartheid continue to live a relatively privileged life, protected by the wealth and property amassed during the years of apartheid law, while those who suffered under that law continue to live in squalor, destitute and unemployed, I would have been more open to his words...
...Eminem was the least of the squalor. He has a smart high school sophomore's dark literacy and the good grace to attempt maneuvers of dissociation (you see, it's not me who's crazy and violent but the voices I channel from others in our sick society). He rapped a number purporting to be made up of menacing messages from a nutcase fan, working in counterpoint with Elton John, a benevolent marshmallow in a clown suit, still exhaling faux poetics in the "Candle in the Wind" mode. Watching Eminem's body English, I thought of the Japanese expression henna...
...control - others share the concerns of international monitors over the long-term effect of such a strategy. After all, the declining economic circumstances make it a lot easier for Hamas to recruit young men as suicide bombers, its promise of the paradise of martyrdom holding considerably more allure amidst squalor and hopelessness than it would if those same young men could measure it against a more promising future. And the impoverishment of the incipient Palestinian state darken the already diminished prospects for harmonious coexistence with its Israeli neighbor...
...reason for the play's tremendous popularity. These issues, while compelling, are certainly not new. From John Millington Synge and his Playboy of the Western World to Frank McCourt and the recent phenomenon of Angela's Ashes, the theme of impoverished rural Ireland (dubbed "The Genre of Irish Squalor" by one critic) is one that never fails to attract an enthusiastic audience, especially an American...