Word: squalor
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...Believe It?" With all that gold out front, she said, why should the servants live in squalor in the back? Harking back to the days when she triumphantly introduced cold running water into the servants' quarters of the U.S. embassy in Argentina, she demanded bigger rooms, toilets and even balconies, instead of the sparse quarters that Europeans customarily provide for their help in India. "Can you believe it?" said she. "They weren't even going to have chimneys for their stoves." Harriet Bunker's crusade cost an extra $250,000, probably delayed the completion of the building...
...flights to celestial and cosmic bodies" will also be carried out. It targets an overall rise of 80% in industrial output by 1965, and a 62%-63% boost in national income. Thus the emphasis will again be on heavy industry-an old story to Russian workers living in overcrowded squalor. They have to be inspired somehow to renewed effort. Khrushchev's recipe is pride, optimism, promises...
...like, he's a Green Eyes with a smokescreen. Green Eyes covered with mud. Green Eyes in the dark..." That's not the way they talk in Hoboken. Genet, however, has no commitment to consistency, and the contrast between the beauty of his lines and the squalor of the accents in which it is spoken might be exactly what he was aiming at. Or it might...
Still Buried. After the experiment in systematic derangement ends in scandal and squalor, Claude makes his way back to Cambon. He is weak and ill. In the writing of A Season in Hell, he chokes down his poetry and his past. His exit line: "No more words. I bury the dead in my belly...
...publishers and a number of critics have made much of the novel's "economy" of presentation. It is a strange economy, an economy which reduces the 18 years of squalor to a few paragraphs, and yet sends its protagonist back to the squalor as a pawn of Guerard's "reality." It is an economy which, when employed, too often fails to satisfy the curiosity; and which, in its lapses, overelaborates the same sort of sex affair people have confessed to in railroad club cars for a quarter-century...