Word: squalor
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...Revelation. "Dear Bobbo," Margery wrote, "Don't be furious about getting a card. I promise a letter next time. I wanted you to see the incredible and fascinating city we were in. With all the training we had we really were not prepared for the squalor and absolutely primitive living conditions rampant both in the city and the bush. We had no idea what 'underdeveloped' meant...
...initial shock of discovering the squalor in India seems to have obscured the original purpose of the "pilgrimage;" Mr. Koestler ends up explaining what should be done to cure the ills of India and completely abandons the possibility that the country might have some lesson to offer the West. Having thus disposed of the total of Indian culture in 162 pages, the "pilgrim" is ready for his journey to Japan...
Brazil was not amused to see itself in a five-part LIFE Magazine study of Latin America last spring. Photographer Gordon Parks had paid a visit to a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, and recorded with his camera the often noted but still incredible squalor in which the favelados live-within a ten-minute drive of Rio's beautiful Copacabana Beach. But if Brazilians were stung by the truths of LIFE'S camera, by last week in the pages of O Cruzeiro (circ. 700,000), Brazil's largest picture magazine, they were reaping the rich satisfaction...
...richness of filth makes American-slum or Skid Row language seem puritanical and pale. But along with the four-letter words are warm passages of glistening simplicity and flights of startling insight. As each Sánchez tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality, the squalor fades into a natural backdrop for the intense drama of five human beings...
...plot centers on a clash of principles and personalities between a messy old dear of a pathologist (Fredric March) and the slick young bug-detective (Ben Gazzara) called in to ease him out. The new boy is appalled by the unscientific squalor he finds in the pathology lab, which is one of the principal diagnostic tools in any hospital's kit. He lights a hot fire under March, but the old boy stubbornly refuses to budge. "My face is turning purple trying to swallow you," he rages, "but I will! I'm staying!" And the young man just...