Word: squalor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are too many becalmed stretches when hardly anything happens. Based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the script is a sort of reefed-in version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Instead of Clark Gable there is Alan Ladd, an actor who, even in the squalor of a windjammer's brig, carries himself as if he were wearing a dinner jacket under his rags. Instead of Charles Laughton there is James Mason, who makes (whenever he raises his voice above its customary elegant whisper) a fetching younger version of Captain Bligh. The wishbone of contention...
...attempts an all but impossible role. For more than a century and a half, as the catalyst in the greatest U.S. melting pot, New York's schools have been assaulted by wave on wave of immigrants from abroad and have been forced to spread their light amidst squalor, machine politics, and fogs of apathy, racial prejudice and ignorance...
...would cost, how they would like the new cooperative that would tell them what to plant, how to take their goods to market. "Mohammed Naguib is a good man," it was said in the villages. "He will give us everything soon." Others were still skeptical in a land whose squalor is among the world's deepest...
...original "Ashcan School" of American painters; in New York. At the turn of the century, he joined the revolt against the namby-pamby art of the period, became famous for his Harper's Weekly illustrations and his Toulouse-Lautrec-like vignettes of Fifth Avenue society and Bowery squalor...
Probably the finest story of the nine is "For Esme with Love and Squalor," in which Salinger best merges humor with tragedy. It tells of a soldier in England, who agrees to correspond with a small British girl, and finds himself opening her first letter in Germany, months later, while he is in a state of shell shock...