Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently an informal group of linguistic vigilantes has risen up to ridicule American abuses and to warn, in terms alternately playful and despairing, that a culture so heedless of its language is headed toward a state of corrupt, Orwellian gibberish These writers have found a responsive audience; people obsessed with good English almost enjoy the feeling that they belong to an embattled cult. NBC Commentator Edwin Newman's Strictly Speaking, a catalogue of ugly Americanisms and verbal atrocities, was 26 weeks on the bestseller lists. A Pulitzer prizewinning writer, Jean Stafford, has been conducting a crusade of sorts against...
...between 1967 and 1971. Now Hoffa's disappearance and presumed murder have focused new attention on the giant union, leading to one clear-if dismaying-conclusion: the decades of exposes and cleanup attempts have accomplished next to nothing. The Teamsters go rolling along, more powerful and perhaps more corrupt at the top than ever...
...corrupt aristocrat moves painfully by day. At night, of course, he is able to change from man to bat to wolf to fog. The human characters who have been hunting Dracula in the light now lie abed, weak with doubt, receptive to phantoms. A winged shape flutters at the casement-ludicrous as a plot device, but classically suggestive as an embodiment of dread...
There are a million and a half prisoners [in Soviet jails and camps]; victims of a corrupt judicial machinery that is run by state authorities and local "mafias," they did not bribe the right officials at the right time. There are as many as 10,000 political prisoners in the U.S.S.R. and even more people persecuted for their religious convictions. At the same time, only a small number of people, mostly concentrated in two or three cities, make up what may be called "the democratic movement." But their very existence within the monolith of Soviet society is of great ethical...
Pascal theorized that all the world's troubles originated from man's inability to sit still in a room. Tarden's life is an enactment of that aphorism. His encounters serve chiefly to erode his soul and corrupt those who enter his life. A girl who falls in love with him leaps from a roof and becomes paralyzed. His closest friend goes insane and attempts to decapitate him. A mistress who has misbehaved is turned over to three derelicts to be gang-raped. Yet Tarden is also capable of whimsical decencies. A political prisoner is released when...