The alternative was to live as he did, in middle-class squalor, in married bachelorhood.
Samar's Brahmin pedigree holds him aloof from India's squalor but connects him to nothing else.
Once you are thrown into this deep uncertainty and squalor, the fraternity of the road takes over.
The group weaved its way to the city's train tracks, only barely visible amid the garbage and squalor.
But rarely has the contrast between the international prestige of Brazilian football and its domestic squalor been greater.
Teeth, complexions and clothes all evoke the prosperous Poland of today more than the squalor and hunger of 1945.
While labor activists refer to Longhua as a sweatshop, it hardly has the look of Dickensian squalor the term connotes.
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To William Beveridge it was about eradicating evil - the "giant evils" of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease.
Later, when she began writing books, she fostered no atmosphere at all other than genteel squalor and heavy drinking and gloom.
The choice, for many, is going hungry in the countryside or finding a job while living in squalor in the towns.
"Dead Souls" is a poem about Russia, its provincial backwaters, its secondary characters (clerks, minor officials, small landowners), its heartbreaking squalor.
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It's a long way from the fear and pain and squalor of a 6-by-4 cell in Hanoi to the Oval Office.
It is hard to believe that amid this urban squalor, a young entrepreneur is changing the lives of women in Nepal.
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He captures the way Russians are transformed by toasts, the romance of long-distance train rides and the squalor of train stations.
Most of them still live in squalor, says Louis Bancoult, leader of the Chagos Refugee Group, and want to go home.
We were spared tragic footage of families adrift, and public facilities hastily and poorly converted into mass shelters of unimaginable squalor.
That may have been the case, and the hardcore squalor of "Boogie Nights" may have been an overstatement in the other direction.
In Manningham, there is excited discussion about another group, who are said to live ten to a house in conditions of squalor.
He wants the revenue from his proposed tax to clean up America's public squalor, which has bothered certain economists ever since J.
She tweeted that the men were living in squalor and grim conditions.
In Nouakchott itself, around 700, 000 people, most of them living in squalor, must make do with facilities and services designed for 100, 000.
In this squalor they sought salvation but death stalked them here.
The first and most obvious result is the squalor of the camps, from accumulation of trash and litter, to the lack of sanitation.
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Since last year things have gone from bad to worse, as Britain's media have rounded on Heathrow for its embarrassing chaos and squalor.
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Myawaddy's squalor the plywood-and-tin shacks and unpaved muddy roads crowded with mangy dogs and goats belies the lucrative smuggling that may be the city's main industry.
Close to the Bowery on 97 Orchard Street, the Tenement Museum of New York recreates the lives of emigrants struggling with urban squalor.
The overall effect of all this was of a long-term but makeshift camping site and the overwhelming impression I had was one of squalor.
Yet their lives take on a surreal, and eerily fascinating, squalor.
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The big prestige projects that impress Tom Friedman are real, but so equally are the squalor of the conditions in which most ordinary Chinese still live.
In a feat of social engineering black Africans live crammed in pens of squalor where some starve, while many of Sudan's Arabs live outside untouched villages and towns outside.
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