Word: corruptable
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...dialogue is merely specious; it is the attitudes that are openly corrupt. The film's war protester is Junkie Nick Filbert (Robert F. Lyons). To avoid the draft he woos a black woman with a large family, tries to flee to Canada, and attempts to convince an Army examiner that he is a raving queer. When none of the dodges work, he enlists in the Marines and becomes more gung-ho than John Wayne, only to slip back to his spaced-out civilian soul when he is pronounced psychologically unfit. The only implication left is that antiwar demonstrators...
...Fuller, industrialization has gone from comparative primitivity to corrupt sophistication, manipulated by public relations men, villains whom the author describes as "furtive, meddling buffoons," as if p.r. had somehow been the Iago and not the imago of the industrialist. Other Fuller ruminations seem more pertinent: his insistence, for instance, that work never disappears, and slavery is only abandoned through the substitution of machines, lends computers a certain moral purpose. His account of technological society's constantly increasing energy is, he admits, a striking reinterpretation of the miracle of the loaves and fishes. One of Fuller's practical prescriptions...
...full-length novel since 1955, Budd Schulberg makes a bold attempt to invade the thoughts of an aging revolutionary. Justo Moreno Suaárez is the provisional President of a nation's revolutionary government. A former professor of political science, Moreno was a helpful hand in toppling the corrupt regime of President Zamora and aided the rise to power of Angel Bello, the people's hero. Bello rewards Moreno by making him a puppet president, whose essential task is to lend the revolution a respectable imprimatur...
...future have to be man-man relationships, based upon our mutual need for each other. We must have independence, then interdependence. Blacks must first realize that we are needed. Many blacks who feel impotent don't feel that they can deal with whites, not because they are so corrupt, but because some of us deep down feel so inferior we will not compete. Aeronautics, politics, physics, and history may be dominated by whites, but these are not white subjects. These are universal sciences first started by black...
...Corrupt and current forms of power make great capital of abstract terms in order to mask their chief occupations. So men speak publicly today of "pacification" when they really mean violence and death-dealing on a large scale. But the rhetoric of activist groups also has its seductions and dangers. Sometimes the language masks an itch for revenge and violence, and contains nothing new, whether by way of spiritual resources or imagination. The most accurate thing that can be said about it is that it has despaired of communication...