Word: squalor
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...money to beggars is enabling behavior, but most people do vacillate in their responses to the poverty in our midst. Perhaps you sometimes give change and occasionally purchase a Spare Change newspaper because it seems more legitimate. Invariably, though, you turn on the blinders, face forward, and ignore the squalor of the busy city, vaguely mouthing lies like, “I’m all out of change, sorry.”Homelessness has reached a kind of equilibrium, both in Harvard Square and our society in general. We are occasionally guilted into a handout or a food pantry...
...That squalor did not come cheap. The set alone, at Rome's Cinecitt studio lot, cost $13 million and the 12-episode first season, $100 million. Shooting began in March 2004 but was delayed as HBO shuffled producers and reshot chunks of the first three episodes (directed by filmmaker Michael Apted). It also had the largely British cast drop the regional accents they had used to distinguish the classes, deeming them too inscrutable for Americans...
...British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor of middle-class domestic life" derive from memory. But he adds, in a line echoing the sensibility of Benefactors and his other work so aptly that it might be his literary credo, "One always has great nostalgia for experiences that were emotionally intense, even if one had mixed feelings about them...
Harrison says that the inhabitants of the slums of Gainesville were living in squalor, while the real estate establishment both profited from them and opposed movements towards reform...
...thought], 'Virginia Woolf was a gold mine. I might as well try to cash in on Whitman as well.'" The poet appears in person only in the book's first part, a grim, oddly lyrical look at the lives of poor factory workers trapped in the filth and squalor of 19th century Manhattan. "Who was striding through all that but Mr. Walt Whitman?" Cunningham says. "'I sing the body electric!' The great embracer of all things, at a time when there was conspicuously little to embrace...