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...dismal and deeply moving story of a clerk and his wife and their domestic difficulties in a cramped Manhattan flat...
...mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance in classes on Egyptology, Cryptology and the Italian drama drops off. Scholarship standards quiver and collapse. Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere. Graduates and alumni (they are not identical) storm and sulk in the suburbs, write angry letters, tear up checks and send their sons to the University of Nebraska. The loss of these checks is more serious than the loss of the sons...
Bright young men in middle western high schools hear from afar the dismal thunder of defeat and elect to go elsewhere...
...There is a dismal display of ignorance on the part of people in general as to the work which the social service workers are engaged in," he continued. "Most of them think it to be one form of socialism or another. Others mistake it for charity only as such. Charity is, to be sure, a large department of social service, but it is the repair department...
They knew too well what really went on behind those apparently dismal walls; no housefront however dreary, could hide from them its inner chambers hung with a thousand twilit blazonries and perfumed with the musk of frankincense and grated orris-root?chambers wherein slim Chinese girls with scarlet fingernails and breasts like almond-petals submit among Himalayas of varicolored cushions, to the embraces of opium-bloated laundrymen...