Word: squalorous
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Manhattan's sludgy East Side, where fine river bank apartment houses rise self-consciously in the midst of four-story squalor, was the locale of Playwright Sidney Kingsley's melodrama, Dead...
...vivid contrast to the squalor of their surroundings is Harvard University, with its beautiful buildings, playing fields, and comparatively well-to-do student body. The youngsters have not yet learned the gentle art of stealing cars, although this may come in time, but they have discovered the possibilities of income, in one form or another, from their wealthier neighbors. The loss incurred by the university community is slight, and only the possibility of a serious fire or an injured student can justify consideration of the problem on materialistic grounds; but Harvard should not be altogether deaf to its civic obligations...
...lamentable fact that no matter whom Boston's voters may choose on November 2 as their new mayor, there seems little definite promise of a respite from the city's recent reign of political squalor. Of the six candidates now left in the running, there is just one who by virtue of apparent honesty and only average ability could not fittingly bear the standard of Tammany Hall...
...wealth and poverty, freedom and tyranny seemed to have struck a permanent balance. It was a time of elaborate facades and filthy backstreets, of nearsighted perceptions and long-range emotions. If a gentleman, posting hastily through the slums, had a tear in his eye, it was not for the squalor and misery he saw around him, but for the sorrows of Goethe's best-selling Young Wertker. It was only a truism when Edward Gibbon, concluding on the eve of the French Revolution his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, remarked that no such social upsets could possibly...
...Soviet cellarful of morbid, introspective thieves, drunkards and derelicts has been brought to the screen by France's Director Jean Renoir (Madame Bovary, Toni), son of the impressionist painter. In a foreword he announces his film as "human" rather than specifically Russian drama. For realistic squalor and decay Renoir copied the 1936 slums of Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Paris suburb...