Word: squalor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sickened but glad that Patrick J. Buchanan won the New Hampshire Republican primary. Here he stands, no longer an intemperate renegade we can dismiss, but a major contender for the Republican presidential nomination. Now we must face him in all of his abundant squalor...
...Fonseca accepts the scholarly consensus that the Gypsies left their original homeland in northern India for Persia and points west in the 10th century, probably as captives. Contrary to popular conception, the majority of Gypsies are not itinerant, except when uprooted by local prejudice or intimidation. Despite the external squalor of their compounds, Gypsies, Fonseca writes, are almost ritualistically fanatical about cleanliness. She describes living in a Gypsy family's home in Albania, where she was considered unfit, as a mere gadja, to wash herself. Proper scrubbing was performed by two teenage girls...
...everyone, however, was so pleased. Demonstrators followed Castro around, calling out, "Assassin!" Jose Cardenas, the director of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Washington, said, "How dispiriting for Cubans sitting in misery and squalor to see Fidel feted in New York by the powers that be. His acceptance by them could have set back the prospects for freedom and democracy in Cuba by five years." Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms vowed to renew efforts to make the embargo even tighter...
Theroux's ethnic snobbery is a tired act by now, but his his eyes remain open to beauty as well as squalor. The sensuous Alexandria of old, he notes, was a city "so purple, with Nubian slaves, child brothels, and cabals and nearly always someone in the Casbah wailing with meningitis." One can almost forgive the racist undercurrents of a writer who can pen a sentence like that...
...copy of Colin Powell's book, which is testimony to how a man from a challenged background can reach the top. Powell's parents had pride in themselves, their children and their home, which is a lot more than Little Boy can say, as shown by the squalor he tolerates, a behavior his children will emulate. IRVIN S. NAYLOR York, Pennsylvania...