Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great child psychologists. Fagin, for example, was very clearly an evil man. But the Artful Dodger is a human being in every sense of the term. He's not alienated, because he has had dealings with someone who is somebody, even though he's corrupt. The important thing is to be brought up by somebody. Before we worry about who it is, let it, please God, be somebody. It is very important for a child that there be a person on the other end of the seesaw, and that each reckons with the other. There...
Finally, there is a mission project run by the Presbyterian Church. Unfortunately, this program is incompetently run and very possibly corrupt. The minister running the program is black and has four cars, a beautiful new home in Selma, and a black servant. He spends little time in Wilcox County and really remains apart from the people he is supposed to be helping. Much evidence indicates that he and some black school principals are working together for their own personal benefit. For example, some principals were paid three times over for school lunches this summer-once by the federal government, once...
Kingman Brewster, in the standard interpretation of Mayday at Yale, emerges as a sort of Faust figure, a corrupt, conniving academic who sold his soul to the devil for an easy out. Very few people have compared him to Marguerite, the naive, innocent young girl whom Mephistopheles lures into damnation. The Faust interpretation, after all, has one important flaw; it presumes that the Yale administration is made up of Faustian academics overflowing with guile and cunning, who completely controlled the events of last spring. In fact, the reverse was true...
Something of this same way of thinking is apparent whenever people at Harvard talk about Yale, and especially when they discuss Yale's reaction to last Mayday. Conditioned by the belief that the academic is essentially corrupt, an opportunist, a man in search of personal gain, it is easy to understand why the actions of the Yale faculty seem suspect, or why a Harvard observer would be moved to speak of King-man Brewster as a "grinning hypocrite." If Yale did not go to Hell, it was not because it didn't deserve...
...that the effort fails. Worse, it helps finance organized crime, a vast consumer industry that supplies millions of Americans with outlawed goods and services. On gambling alone, the Mob now nets as much as $10 billion a yearseed money for narcotics distribution, loan-sharking and bribes for corrupt lawmen who look the other...