In "The Know-Nothing Bohemians," an essay in Partisan Review, the young Norman Podhoretz wrote that "the Beat generation's worship of primitivism and spontaneity is more than a cover for hostility to intelligence; it arises from a pathetic poverty of feeling as well".
In the background, in the two other stories told in the play by Hardy's wife and his manager, there is the tough world of facts and poverty of feeling which will, we know, become poisonous and destroy the faith healer, the great talker.
One teacher asked about the impact at their school of poverty said: "Pupils who are complaining of feeling sick because they're so hungry in lessons, some students with poor personal hygiene due to family issues at home, some teachers leaving food in the classrooms for certain students as they know they won't have eaten either breakfast that morning or possibly tea the night before".
Lack of parents, poverty, and feeling grown up were mostly reported by the rural schools.
Campaign groups working on the eradication of child poverty should be feeling thrilled at the way this issue has moved towards the mainstream.
The main reasons why young girls engage in sexual activity were identified as; peer pressure or joining bad groups, need for good things, being lured by men with gifts or free rides by motor cyclists, lack of parents at home, poverty, feeling grown up, and admiring girls who walk to schools with boys.
These were my people, but no amount of pills or surgery could cure what plagued the community: poverty, a feeling of being hunted and a deep-rooted sense of futurelessness.
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness and a bit of panic.
The cityscapes he depicts may be exquisite, but the poverty of the nation and its feeling of inferiority to the West are disturbing.
There exists an association between poverty and a feeling of lack of power in understanding the long term consequences associated with HIV because daily sustaining necessities of life prevent understanding of these consequences [ 30].
Through onscreen text of their mournful verse, and quietly stark glimpses into their migratory, hand-to-mouth lives, we see how their art is a coping mechanism for loss, poverty, and feelings of invisibility.
