squalor
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In 1953, “Esmé” was reprinted in Salinger’s “Nine Stories,” a collection whose U.K. edition was titled “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor: And Other Stories.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016
Squalor, who is also frontman for the band Dingus Khan, said he had slight hygiene concerns about performing in the toilet but that the departure from the "usual gig format" would be worth it.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2014
Jesse's relationships with this trio bring to mind two great stories about literature and learning, Lionel Trilling's Of This Time, of That Place and JD Salinger's For Esme – with Love and Squalor.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2012
Sitcomish Squalor and Dysfunction The new play “Oliver Parker!” at the Cherry Lane Theater might qualify as offensive — certainly it strives mightily for that dubious laurel — if it were not so patently artificial.
From New York Times • May 20, 2010
Squalor and tragedy can beckon to all that is great in us, and strengthen the wings of love.
From Howards End by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
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