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Word: corruptable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heartbreaking to see the photo of the little girl holding the sign that said "I don't want to go to school with the blacks" [March 9]. I was sickened to think that any parent could knowingly corrupt his child with such senseless hatred. Until human beings cleanse themselves of bigotry, busing will do nothing to bridge the gap between the races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 30, 1970 | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...Corrupt and Doomed. Taking their cue from right-wing racists who used to keep blacks down with TNT, whites and blacks of the lunatic left have begun using explosives to produce sound effects and shock waves in their campaign to unnerve a society that they regard as corrupt and doomed. Schools, department stores, office buildings, police stations, military facilities, private homes-all have become targets. So far, miraculously, fatalities have been relatively few. One small slip, however -or one bloodthirsty bomber-could run up a death toll that could easily rival a week's total in Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bombing: A Way of Protest and Death | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...comes to law or town design, is lured into alchemy and other esoteric sciences; he tries to use a daguerreotype machine to find the invisible player of his pianola. One of his sons, Colonel Aureliano Buendia, becomes a revolutionary leader who organizes 32 armed uprisings against a distant and corrupt "government." He loses them all, but wins the war-only to lose the peace. Aureliano II is a roistering spendthrift who takes on all comers in eating contests. He falls only once, comatose with turkey, in a four-day duel with a fastidious lady known as "the Elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orchids and Bloodlines | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...complicity with a destructive society, an involvement symbolized by her attachment to the, businessman, Rod Taylor. Again, her basic reflexes are sound. Antonioni suggesting that she is capable of reaching a decision to resist forces' Antonioni condemns. In a brief meeting with some beautiful deranged children, corrupt as the angelic demons that end Fellini's Toby Dammit and La Dolce Vita, Daria is threatened by infantile gang rape and escapes fast, horrified at 'these mutants removed from society by a friend of hers. They inhabit America's barren unclear-testing-ground country, children of a social and cultural Hiroshima, like...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: In Search of 'Zabriskie Point' | 3/11/1970 | See Source »

...Russians try to take over West Berlin. It is all right to send Marines to the Dominican Republic to prevent a Communist takeover. It is all right to wage an endless war to make sure that the authoritarian North Vietnamese don't get the better of the corrupt and grafting South Vietnamese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 23, 1970 | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

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