Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until he took N.M.U.'s helm nine years ago, tattooed Joe Curran was an ordinary seaman with a more-than-ordinarily militant resentment of slim pay, mealy food and crummy quarters aboard U.S. ships. When disgruntled East Coast sailors cast off from the corrupt and ineffective A. F. of L. International Seamen's Union and went C.I.O., they made big Joe Curran top seadog in their aggressive new union. N.M.U. rank & filers had long had a noticeable list to port: some belonged to dockside cells of the Communist Party. No one lifted an eyebrow when a bunch...
...quoted and remembered, are always capsule damnations, cutting and sour. Their reputations, and I suppose their pay, depend, then, upon disliking plays . . . In no other art is there anything vaguely resembling this. . . . [Critics] become Shakespeare's peer. "It was better in France. There the critics were perceptive and corrupt. The managers paid them off and bought good reviews and the plays were left to the honest decision of the audiences...
...quoted and remembered, are always capsule damnations, cutting and sour. Their reputations, and I suppose their pay, depend, then, upon disliking plays . . . In no other art is there anything vaguely resembling this. . . . [Critics] become Shakespeare's peer. "It was better in France. There the critics were perceptive and corrupt. The managers paid them off and bought good reviews and the plays were left to the honest decision of the audiences...
Rowlandson's raffish lampoons showed a corrupt but essentially comic world in which everyone was either too fat or too thin. Plump, pug-faced William Hogarth was perhaps harder to take. With less wit, he had gone deeper into the cynical, sensual, swaggering spirit of his time, and used his engraving tools, like a moral surgeon, to lay bare the malignant tumors of cruelty, ignorance and greed...
Freedom of the press was the clearest example. Liberal-Catholic MRP committeemen wanted a "guarantee" that it would not be tampered with, considered a slight case of press control as dangerous as a slight case of cancer. Communists and Socialists feared a return to France's prewar corrupt press standards, which reached the reeking point in the '30s when Le Matin and other papers sold out to the Germans. The Communist Humanité tiraded against allowing the press to be controlled by the wealthy, warned that "trusts" must not "dominate public opinion contrary to real freedom...