Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like many advocates of censorship, Jeffrey Bell seems to worry only about how works of art depicting violence and "explicit sex" will corrupt other people not how they will corrupt him. He can presumably take care of himself, and so he can admire Rosemary's Baby as art without any adverse consequences to his state of mind. But he favors the "total suppression" of that movie because he believes that it has contributed to "the cult of Satanism." Apparently he wants to protect other people, less mature than himself, from their own impulses. His insulting paternalism is evident throughout...
...still represents the deliverance from the evil that was Nazism. There is a middle-range group of leftist intellectuals, roughly in their early 30s, who are violently anti-American because they consider the U.S. the model of a capitalist, imperialist society. The young generally see the U.S. as a corrupt military-industrial establishment -even as they absorb and emulate the latest made-in-America styles in rock sounds, drugs and fashions...
...known for his marvelous biography of his father, Bert Lahr. In The Autograph Hound, one-liners accumulate. Someone tells Benny that cooking is just like life. "Cooking's not like life," he snaps. "If you get a bad meal, you don't have to eat it." The corrupt union leader is mod. He's written for Management News and he "goes very well with his rug." We learn that Otto Preminger's "making the life story of the Pope. It's called Pope. They're filming in Spain. Catholics are cheaper there...
...awakened to its knightly mission last year, after ending the long reign of terror by the Tupamaro guerrillas. Systematically tracking down suspects one after another in order to demoralize the Tupamaro leadership, the army within nine months accomplished what the government, with a top-heavy bureaucracy and a casually corrupt police force and court system, had been unable to bring about in more than four years. Heady with victory, the army was obviously waiting for the chance to bring a new-found sense of morality to Uruguay's larger problems. It came last month, when a Montevideo paper documented...
...President's assertions that American involvement in Vietnam has been "one of the most selfless enterprises in the history of nations:" our part in the ravagement of Indochina and the sacrifice of Asian and American lives can never be explained away by our willing support of a string of corrupt regimes. Now that the fighting is about to stop, we must urge Congress to turn off the military pipeline to Thieu, to insist on the release of political prisoners, and to prevent further American intervention in the political future of Vietnam...