Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I was horrified to learn that Harvard University may soon close the Linden St. Pinocchio's. Four years ago, when I was but a mere pup, I launched a visceral vendetta against the wurst of Harvard Square's greasy spoons. Yes, I had wretched on cold fries; yes, I had...
Updike knows the upright Americans of Pleasant Avenue, U.S.A. are troubled; the price of gravel for the driveways has dropped dramatically and "it is a beautiful day, a bright blue Monday," but still they feel wretched.
Last year, Section 80 had a name for its hope--Larry Bird, a 6-ft. 9-in. human caricature with a ready-made nickname (and a scraggly blond head of hair.) The Celtics had him hooked before he began his senior year at Indiana State; and the fans, between obscenities...
All too often, however, the new arrivals join the jobless masses. Unemployment is officially listed at 19%; unofficial estimates put it as high as half the work force. With no other prospects, tens of thousands of Mexicans today wrest a living from the junk heap. In Mexico City, occupants of...
It started in disillusionment with the American Dream. As Alexis de Tocqueville clairvoyantly saw in 1835, the dream always contained a dark possibility that it might eventually degenerate, in its fulfillment, into a sorry and anxiously sweating materialism, the American elect unsatisfied, wanting more and more, turning the land of...