Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against the Republican, Democratic and Conservative parties for flouting federal law restricting campaign donors to a $5,000 maximum per candidate. According to the Common Cause complaint, the parties have regularly set up campaign committees that enable a contributor to give much more than the amount permitted by the Corrupt Practices Act. Moreover, some of those committees spend more than the $3,000,000 allowable annually, Gardner charges. Next week Gardner will testify in Washington against the seniority system for picking congressional committee chairmen; one prominent House Democrat thinks that Common Cause can grasp enough of the power levers...
...today. He has found it within himself. In spite of all that Freud has taught the 20th century about the ambivalence of inner drives and longings, a growing number of modern thinkers have put their faith and hope in the psyche as the last refuge of idealism in a corrupt, unhappy world. Charting the physical decline of one civilization after another, Historian Arnold Toynbee took comfort in what he called the "etherealization" of mankind: the tendency of advancing societies to encounter internal rather than external challenges, to move from a material existence to one that is more spiritual. Similarly...
...filched away by doddering sentimentalists. It's scarcely believable that Irish scenery so gorgeously lit could be rendered so sickening by the likes of Robert Bolt, who collaborated (for once the right word) very closely with Lean on the screenplay. But it's true: even for its own corrupt purposes Ryan's Daughter, besides being badly cast and directed, is constructed worse than almost any picture you could name...
...minor figure prematurely. Overall, however, the results of the Strike Force's work have been encouraging. Newark, scarred by riots three years ago, has been a center of the investigations, and Bartels hopes that indictments there will restore some of the confidence lost over years of political corruption. "You can't begin to understand the riot until you understand the extent of the corruption there," he says. "Everything was for sale. The entire black community was aware of this and simply lost confidence in the city's institutions. I knew New Jersey was corrupt, but I never...
...sick and silly women are joining with the rest of the world's sick and silly, like blacks, Indians, Mexican Americans, Vietnamese and the poor, to bring this corrupt, avaricious, diseased, inhuman society to its knees...