Word: squalor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Absurd as they seem, the hungries see themselves as the spokesmen of a betrayed and miserable people. "Our frustration is not just personal," says a 28-year-old geology lecturer. "It comes from the strains, the poverty, the squalor of our society." And in a series of violent manifestoes, the hungries singled out their enemies, including hypocrites, conventional writers and politicians whose place in society lies "somewhere between the dead body of a harlot and a donkey's tail." To "let loose a creative furor," the hungries last summer sent every leading Calcutta citizen-from police commissioner to wealthy...
...State's Liberal Party, the clergymen complained that "nothing justifies the smears" being circulated on the Jenkins case.* "A few episodes involving personal morality are allowed to obscure fateful moral issues related to public life -moral issues such as the full civil rights of all citizens, the shameful squalor and poverty in our cities and the danger of nuclear war," said the statement. "We see the Jenkins episode as a case of human weakness. If there is a security factor involved, let that be dealt with on its own terms and let it not serve chiefly as an excuse...
Estates & Brownstones. When it was over, the two sides spoke only through counsel. Dr. Murphy's lawyer said that "the decision completely vindicates all his acts to date." If the Murphy children never live with the easy spaciousness the Rockefellers can command, they are scarcely condemned to squalor. Dr. Murphy, a descendant of Samuel Slater, the Rhode Island textile pioneer, is, well-to-do in his own right. Dr. Murphy's father was head of the cancer-research laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute for 40 years...
Communist Country. By wiping out Tiro Fijo, Colombia would just about end the savage backlands violence that began in 1948 as a feud between the country's Liberals and Conservatives. But catching Sure Shot is no sure thing. Reared in poverty and squalor, he drifted into a Communist guerrilla band in the early 1950s. By 1960 he had his own gang, and moved his family and followers onto a 10,000-acre hacienda near the foot of snow-topped Mount Huila-after killing the hacienda's owner. From his new home Tiro Fijo began taking over all neighboring...
Cold War Frontier. The main carryover from the earlier stories that Cornwell built up in Spy is not a character but an atmosphere: grubby realism and moral squalor, the frazzled, fatigued sensitivity of decent men obliged to betray or kill others no worse than themselves. Cornwell said recently: "I chose spying as a subject for reasons of polemic. Western democracy seems to have one unifying force: the idea that individuals are more valuable than philosophies. My intention was to write about a group of people who consciously abandon the Western principle in order to defend...