Word: squalorous
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...claimed that if a working mother could not have the best of both worlds, "she can have the best of one and as much as possible of the other." She protested against "the tyranny of housework," but noted that she was "not suggesting you live your life in Bohemian squalor...
This sudden architectural flowering is only an outward manifestation of the spirit of the world's richest and most incredible city-a clangorous concatenation of wealth and squalor, the crowded island that is a center of culture and a hotbed of crime, a place where everything is for sale, and anything can be done. This tremendous outpouring of energy and treasure ranges from apartment houses to bus terminals, from office buildings to slum-clearance projects (see color pages...
Doing Nothing. Some 2.4% of the nation's 65-and-over oldsters have been forced to give up the fight for self-reliant existence and have entered one of the thousands of institutions for the aged that range downward from expensive private adequacy to public squalor. Whether they are in converted Manhattan brownstones or onetime country estates, mental and physical deterioration usually comes fast amid the frayed checkerboards, the flickering television sets and the cold tea. In one such home on the Eastern seaboard, a former foreman said softly to a visitor last week: "I can't think...
Seven Hours from Death. Why this great crusade? Paul Crump's road to crime is no different from that traveled by hundreds of other convicts. One of 13 children raised in the squalor of Chicago's Negro ghetto, Crump learned to fend for himself after his father deserted the family when he was six. He dropped out of high school after only one year, graduated rapidly from stealing bicycles to armed robbery, for which he was dumped into the Illinois state penitentiary for three years when just...
Sweet Slavery. Southern writers cultivated their own myth as assiduously as Northerners. Theirs was a knightly ideal of chivalry lifted from the novels of Sir Walter Scott. Ignoring the squalor in the real South, they populated fictitious plantations with gorgeous women and jolly slaves. Romantic hyperbole was commonplace. Wrote Poet Sydney Lanier to his wife after 9½ years of marriage: "My heart's Heartsease, My sweet Too-sweet, if I could wrap thee in a calyx of tender words still would they seem but like the prickly husk in respect of thee, thou Rose, within." Southerners spun elaborate...