Word: squalore
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...died as he had lived-violently, sensationally and in squalor. The operator of a cheap rooming house near the Bowery found Bodenheim, 60, and his third wife, Ruth Fagan, 35, dead in a sleazy furnished room. The poet sprawled on the floor, a paperback copy of Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us propped awkwardly on his chest, covering a .22-cal. bullet hole. On a bed beside him was the barefoot body of his wife, her face cruelly beaten and a deep knife wound in her back. The murderer had locked the door behind him with a padlock...
Within the past week, two journeyman hoodlums, while attempting to play the trade that had kept them for years in the pitiful squalor to which they were accustomed, received shameful treatment at the hands of their intended victims. It was not capture that rankled (one got clean away, and is presumably sulking in his dingy hide-away), but the absolute indifference that was shown their efforts...
...there are too many becalmed stretches when hardly anything happens. Based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the script is a sort of reefed-in version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Instead of Clark Gable there is Alan Ladd, an actor who, even in the squalor of a windjammer's brig, carries himself as if he were wearing a dinner jacket under his rags. Instead of Charles Laughton there is James Mason, who makes (whenever he raises his voice above its customary elegant whisper) a fetching younger version of Captain Bligh. The wishbone of contention...
...attempts an all but impossible role. For more than a century and a half, as the catalyst in the greatest U.S. melting pot, New York's schools have been assaulted by wave on wave of immigrants from abroad and have been forced to spread their light amidst squalor, machine politics, and fogs of apathy, racial prejudice and ignorance...
...would cost, how they would like the new cooperative that would tell them what to plant, how to take their goods to market. "Mohammed Naguib is a good man," it was said in the villages. "He will give us everything soon." Others were still skeptical in a land whose squalor is among the world's deepest...