Word: corruptable
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...Whites. The people of Chicago have never heard his honor treated so roughly. "Daley the builder?" queries Friedman. "No, Daley the destroyer. Daley the manager? No, Daley the bungler." From storefront to street corner, he declares in his low-key voice: "We're going to sweep that aging, corrupt, manipulating politician out of city hall...
...case is different now, however Kissinger has been involved in the perpetuation of acts which are clearly ethically corrupt and are most probably criminal. In a very real sense the blood of innocents is all over his hands. This certainly does not qualify him for a tenured faculty position. As a man who has systematically helped to engineer the death of thousands of people he should be regarded in the same light as any other criminal and the Harvard community should ask itself if it would let others with similar qualifications have tenured positions...
...clearly well-researched - pageant of 7½ centuries of "galloping inhumanity" (1202 to 1947) drastically slows its tempo. African Everyman becomes specific-one Raymond-Spartacus Kassoumi of a Nakem that increasingly resembles Mali. Nakem's black rulers have already decided that only slaves will be exposed to corrupt French schooling. Raymond comes of a slave family. He studies hard and, as his reward, ends up in Paris receiving an elite-and not so elite-education. To Ouologuem, Kassoumi is the ultimate sophistication of slavery: the black man imprinted with a white soul. African history-and the novel-reaches...
...that it starts speaking to us where we are right now, in our present state of outmoded emotional and intellectual consciousness (and not in some futuristic state when we may actually be interested in Robbe-Grillet's descriptions of objects), in order to take us in, to wreck that corrupt humanist tranquillity in which we once thought we existed. If Duet for Cannibals were pushing a Marxist line, an ideological "content," by equally subversive means, we could call it insidious propaganda, pure Stalinist instrumentation of policy formulated in isolation from the masses. But it doesn't push any "meaning" whatsoever...
Political dishonesty, the corrupt judicial system, deadening public schools, debilitating programs ostensibly in existence to help the poor, and the futility of the political process itself all surfaced-destroying the illusions carefully implanted by upper middle class high schools. In response, the left fought to decentralize, to depoliticize justice, to free children from the tyranny of public schooling, and to organize cooperatives. Its efforts were frustrated by liberalism's refusal to dismantle the machinery of power, prompting many on the left to wonder about the legitimacy of that power...