Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...schism between radical and moderate socialist factions within the Congress Party. The radicals were angry over what they consider to be foot dragging by Mrs. Gandhi's government on social reform since her overwhelming victory in March, 1971. The critics charged that despite her campaign pledges to oust corrupt old-line bosses, the party is still controlled by a conservative elite that to the radicals seems more and more out of touch with India's impoverished masses...
With all that, we do very well indeed, as the article implicitly recognizes. And this in itself is evidence that the system by no means the corrupt or prejudiced one pictured in this article. The quality of the faculty could simply not maintain itself under those conditions. Good choices are cumulative: good scholars while mediocrity feeds on itself...
...Tufts administration is corrupt. It's a club of some not-so-well-intended men who want to perpetuate a level of mediocrity among the faculty." Joost said yesterday...
...success was a sign of God's predestining grace." This judgment, though sometimes affirmed in superficial references to Calvin, is an erroneous inference from certain views of Max Weber. Weber failed to examine such passages in Calvin's writings as: "Wherever prosperity flows uninterruptedly, its effects gradually corrupt even the best of us." Here Calvin calls the view that "God manifested his favor by prosperity" quite erroneous and "a common evil" (referring to Deuteronomy...
...preventing Russian expansion-as much feared in the 19th century as it came to be in the 20th. To do this, he had to prop up the decaying Ottoman Empire, a policy that outraged Liberals who felt that it was a violation of British principles to support a corrupt regime. To stretch a point or two, Disraeli even had a McGovern hectoring him in the person of Gladstone, the Liberal leader who thundered his righteous indignation at the power politics played behind his back. Gladstone was an inveterate moralizer who, as André Maurois once noted, "was reproached...