Word: unkempt
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...might be the evening scene in any city slum. Unkempt youths clot the stoops of dilapidated tenements, talking overboldly of drugs; drunks reel along gutters foul with garbage; young toughs from neighboring turf methodically proposition every girl who passes by, while older strangers hunt homosexual action. The night air smells of decay and anger. For all its ugly familiarity, however, this is not just another ghetto. This is the scene in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, once the citadel of hippiedom and symbol of flower-power love...
...strong supporter of the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. He owns 15 magazines and newspapers, including the popular Bild-Zeitung (literally, picture paper), that account for 31% of West Germany's circulation of weekday publications, 88% on Sundays. Reflecting the disdain that most West Germans feel toward the unkempt young radicals, Springer's papers call them "political beatniks," "crazy half-toughs," and "the matriculated...
...posture of depression" in which the student becomes withdrawn, "seldom leaving his room, which has, like himself, become increasingly unkempt and uncared for." This may be accompanied by lack of appetite, headaches, constipation and loss of weight. > A decline in selfesteem, which shows up in daydreaming, procrastination in schoolwork, inability to concentrate on reading material, apathy and fatigue. > A loss of interest in academic work. The student may prefer "to thumb idly through magazines and science fiction, haunt movies, sit about all day listening to hi-fi or just languishing." >Suicide threats and notes, which "should always be taken seriously...
...Mullen Express-way, a big green steel structure, zooms over part of the neighborhood, the Everett-Forest Hills Elevated zooms over another part. Every two or three minutes an MBTA train passes overhead and the whole neighborhood rattles and shakes. In the middle of the neighborhood is a dirty, unkempt, little, asphalt-paved park dedicated to the memory of a Congregational minister who settled there...
Curle's commitment to crusading action seems overriding, but his professional bearing--the tweedy outfit, the unkempt sandy-gray hair, the contentment with a soft chair and quiet office--hints at the unshakeable academic. In fact, his range of concerns is startling in its scope...