Word: squalor
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...which were undoubtedly not so much recalled as reshaped (or even invented) during tranquillity. Author Suyin does better when she sets out to describe the Hong Kong of 1949 and 1950, its unwieldy population swelled each week by thousands of refugees escaping from the Communists. She can make the squalor, the despair, the poverty and the vice come tragically alive. But all these are the backdrop for a love affair. Han Suyin had friends who saw to it that she did not suffer...
Columbia has consistently maintained a reputation for academic excellence. Unfortunately, it is set in big New York, whose noise and squalor are only partially compensated for by cultural wealth. But even if Columbia misses the Ivy atmosphere, it certainly is not lacking the Ivy intelelct
...Africa is not one of "Europe's colonies," as your editorial seems to imply. Your writer, furthermore, adopts an unwarranted tone of self-righteousness in describing the British oppression of the natives. One might recall that the United States also reduced its native (Indian) population to a "most abject squalor and poverty...
...South Africa half a century ago, under the leadership of Cecil Rhodes and by means of massive military superiority, its policy has changed from ruthless persecution of the natives to paternalism and a tendency toward actual reform. First the British reduced the huge native population to the most abject squalor and poverty by stealing its land and developing industries by exploiting the vast oversupply of labor. They even accentuated the latter by importing thousands of Indian laborers...
Biggest of the favelas is Little Crocodile Hill, where some 45,000 people live jumbled together in squalor and misery. Last week something unusual happened there: strangers invaded the hill and set to work clearing ground for a clinic, a police station and water pipes. The city government was starting a campaign to clean up the favelas, and the program's boss, Dr. Guilherme Ribeiro Romano, 37, had chosen Little Crocodile as the first project...