Word: urchin
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This mechanical trick of pretending that dirt is desirable and that revulsion is attraction is repeated until it is tiresome. Then Genet smiles like an urchin trying to charm a cop and admits that describing vileness "with words that usually designate what is noble was perhaps childish and somewhat facile." In such a way, being allowed to see that such honest admission of fraud is itself fraudulent, the reader is led through the shallows of Genet's soul. "I keep no place in my heart where the feeling of my innocence might take shelter," he writes at one point...
...right, Hammarskjöld was a meteoric success as a banker even before he entered international politics. Yet Markings shows that every step of the way he was dogged by agonizing self-doubts and despair. "Time goes by," he noted, "reputation increases, ability declines." "The little urchin makes a couple of feeble hops on one leg without falling down," he wrote, "and is filled with admiration at his dexterity, doubly so, because there are onlookers. Do we ever grow up?" He was unsparingly self-critical: "If you don't speak ill of others more often than you do, this...
This bizarre detective's job is to follow the wife of a stuffy intellectual accountant who suspects his spouse of being unfaithful. She is a jazzy emotional urchin less than half her husband's age. Their teacher-pupil marriage is threatened with a permanent recess. Peripatetic Philosopher Cristoforou teaches them the saving lesson that love in marriage is content rather than form, the sharing of experience rather than the bandying of words...
...looks of a spirited waif. She plays one in Honey-a little urchin abandoned by her mother and by a Negro sailor who has left her pregnant, later befriended by a pale, homosexual boy who prepares her for motherhood. She is freckled and mousy, with wide-spreading lips and eyes the size of deep-summer plums. But she is an actress, not a slum kitten picked up for verisimilitude...
...truck on a Bronx street to hear New York City's Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner plead for reelection. Smiling painfully, Wagner shook a few hands, then launched into a pallid denunciation of New York's Democratic machine bosses. The audience response, at best, was mixed. An enthusiastic urchin yelled: "Yay for Wag'ner baby!" A tenement dweller shouted down from his window: "Get outa here, yah bum!" In the crowd, a heckler chanted a bitter litany: "New York is woise than ever, New York is woise than ever...