Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn-of-the-century buildings. The catastrophic drama of genocide will thus be installed in the middle of the Washington tourist round, along with the Capitol and the cherry blossoms. The museum will detain tourists as the Ancient Mariner seized the wedding guests to make them listen to an uglier tale than they might want to hear...
AIENUOUSLAYER of etiquette usually hides the uglier side of political struggles. It is considered somewhat uncouth, for example, for politicians overtly to polarize an electorate around issues of ethnicity and race. But in both Chicago and New York, where power struggles of tremendous importance are currently raging, the veneer of civility has been lifted, leaving only the ugliness of racism...
...1920s Cicero achieved a measure of national notoriety for being the home base of Al Capone. In the early 1950s the industrial Chicago suburb achieved another, uglier kind of infamy after a young black bus driver and his family moved into the all-white town. A mob of several thousand whites hounded them out of Cicero and set fire to their furniture as police stood idly by. Today, some 30 years later there are still rackets and plenty of brawling honky-tonks along South Cicero Avenue. And the town is still astoundingly white. Indeed, residents seem nostalgic about Capone...
Given the customary alertness of the Jewish conscience, the Israeli behavior in West Beirut is nearly inexplicable. It seems almost impossible to absolve the Israel Defense Forces of something a good deal uglier than incompetence there. In any case, the civilized do not make contracts with beasts and give them guns and send them out to do a little messy surrogate killing. The beasts will eventually come to inhabit the soul of their sponsor...
...Reserve flood the U.S. with money, many economists believe that Chairman Paul Volcker should be some what less rigid. "The Fed will have to ease up," says Edward Yardeni of the E.F. Hutton brokerage house. "Otherwise, we'll face the risk that this recession will turn into something uglier, a depression...