Word: squalid
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...that I look over this rather squalid list," one faculty liberal noted, "I think we may have overemphasized the need for a pure academic. In the Spring we were so afraid of getting a general or a corporation executive, I guess we distrusted the Wall Street-Ropes and Gray influence too much. There are some who wonder if the need for an academic ought to be reconsidered," he added...
...your article [Sept. 21] you state that the Arabs were evicted from their ancient homeland. They were never evicted and this was never their ancient homeland. You mention further that they were driven into the squalid misery of refugee camps. They just picked up their squalid misery and moved it to another location...
Based on Henry Miller's squalid energetic novel, this wretchedly dubbed adaptation is little more than a spineless catalogue of affairs. Where the book had the decency to be pornographic, the film is merely graphic. All the women are passive sex objects, typified by Colette (Elsebeth Reingaard), a 15-year-old imbecile who literally has no idea what the men are doing...
...world has become a global village, as Marshall McLuhan would have it, the Palestinians have become its most troubled ghetto minority. Evicted from their ancient homeland by the influx of Jews after World War II. the Palestinians were driven into the squalid misery of refugee camps on the Jordanian desert. The Arab governments, which could have helped them, preferred to allow the refugees to remain in the camps as living symbols of the Israeli usurpation. The Israelis were unwilling to accept large numbers of Palestinians inside their own borders and thus risk becoming a minority within their own state. Gradually...
...their homes in what is now Israel (only 340,000 are Israeli citizens), they have little to show for their brothers' endless promises to reconquer Palestine. Of their total number (2,500,000), about half are registered as refugees with the U.N., and half of those live in squalid refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria...