Word: corruptable
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With McCoocy's soul up for option, the play must have its bidders: St. Michael, who make a brief but irreproachable entrance in the third act as a bright center-stage light; and Baron Nicholas de Balbus, the devil's advocate who attempts to corrupt the priest and his household. The ensuing battle between darkness and light is garnished with much theatrical hokum as lights go on, clocks stop, and furniture takes to the air. But despite the commotion, the final triumph of Good is a melodramatic inevitability...
...abuse, and we are paying a high price for our generosity in accepting generosity . . . We have accepted scholarships that cost us more to administer than we received in tuition income; we have accepted buildings that drained away . . . our precious free money ... These [restricted] gifts can break us or corrupt us or both...
...This corrupt version of a well known jingle applies particularly well to Clifford Odets' new play, The Flowering Peach. Whenever Odets is naughty or cute, whether to shock or titillate the audience, he wins laughs or gasps of admiration. But when he sticks to his calling as that rare theatrical type--a thoughtful craftsman--he achieves mature drama...
...Ghulam Mohammed. Scared East Pakistan politicos turned to Prime Minister Ali, who comes from East Pakistan himself. In the name of democracy, the politicos persuaded Ali to ram a bill through the Constituent Assembly that would limit the Governor General's powers-e.g., the right to fire corrupt officials, the right to relieve Prime Ministers. Ghulam, who had appointed Ali in the first place, invited him to the palace for tea and tried to dissuade him. The tea, wisecracked one politico, proved to be "all lemon, no sugar." Ali would not budge. Ministers should be responsible, Ali believed...
...half the British Cabinet, got on first-name terms with most of the Almanack de Gotha. But she refused to meet Mussolini, and her telegraphed reply to an invitation to dine with Farouk I of Egypt went straight to the point: "I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just for good clean fun and loud laughter, and that neither money...