Stories about the grandchildren of slaves, raised amid southern red-dirt poverty, shaped by the music of the church and the juke-joint, then turning northward and giving voice to a new kind of sound that changed the world.
Thanks to Miss Gulch, the movie's Kansas is informed not only by the sadness of dirt-poverty but also by the badness of would-be dog murderers.
The scent is a potent blend of dirt, sweat, poverty and sweet spice.
They returned to Msimangu's house to wash off the dirt of poverty and moral ambivalence.
Du Bois spent a year living in the neighborhood he wrote about, amid what he later described as "an atmosphere of dirt, drunkenness, poverty, and crime".
The city has historically been perceived to be a place of overcrowding, noise, dirt, crime, poverty, disease, and so forth" (Churchman 1999: 392).
Some 2.5 billion people--40people--40people--40%ithout improved sanitation; two thirds of them in dirt-level poverty on less than $2 a day.
The Gambia's southern coast prides itself on its laid-back attitude but – like almost everywhere in Africa – it is a place of extremes, where tourism, sunshine and friendliness coexist with poverty, dirt and persistent hustling.
With the bank's help, the government has drawn up a new list of the indigent, based on proxies for poverty (dirt floors, unprotected wells, shared toilets without drains, and so on) that are easier to verify and harder to manipulate.
Faulkner's Snopeses — a grasping, ambitious, almost casually violent clan of drifters and sharecroppers, sprung from the dirt of Southern poverty — personify the provisional values of a nation that has yet to achieve a completed identity, just as Williams's men and women embody the struggle between reason and rebellion.
The words for "beautiful" and for "clean" are the same, perhaps because in a nation where so many are vulnerable to the elements, dirt reeks of poverty.
