Word: squalorous
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...casino. All they think about is money. They think they can buy anything." The mass of Arabs recoil from the injustice of oil wealth that buys Scotch and an opulent life for the sheiks' Cairo holidays during Ramadan and leaves so many of their brothers in poverty and squalor. A Moroccan journalist remarks, "I don't care if he is a fascist. At least he doesn't gamble and chase women." Many Arabs admire Saddam for his hazem, a sort of relentless strictness, although the image is at odds with a more secular impression that Iraq made until Saddam began...
...object of much of the nativist anger is the thousands of immigrants, legal and illegal, who work on northern San Diego County farms, which last year yielded $770 million in strawberries, tomatoes, avocados and other produce. Many of the workers live in appalling squalor. As expensive housing developments continue to go up near the farms, residents often discover that they live next door to Third World-style worker encampments. "The Americans don't want us here, and so they are always reporting us to the authorities," says Longilo Miranda, 18, a worker from southern Mexico. He lives with his father...
Occasionally, when its author forgets himself and goes out onto the streets, his brief book catches something of the high-spirited dilapidation of the place. Chatting with hitchhikers, inspecting the nervous squalor of a love hotel, suggesting, intriguingly, that the revolution has led to "the perversion of family ethics," Timerman brings us fresh news of the island. As in his celebrated testament, Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, his argument is strongest when it sticks to narrative. But after a few tantalizing glimpses, he is back in his room, reading the island through government documents. The result...
...first morning back in the country, I drove into one of the worst townships in terms of squalor, poverty and juvenile rage, and was alarmed on being surrounded by several dozen tough-looking young blacks who demanded to know who the white man was and what he was doing there. My instant fear turned to instant relief when on hearing my identity they literally opened their arms to "our brother." Astonishingly, all had seen Cry Freedom, and their questions had less to do with the national situation than with what the stars of the movie, Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington...
...Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, whose new book, The University: An Owner's Manual, described Harvard Yard as an "oasis" in the midst of "ever-changing urban squalor...