Word: corruptedness
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They threw themselves on manuscripts, telephone numbers, addresses, receipts from Parisian dry cleaners. My wife, corrupted by Western notions about personal inviolability, couldn't understand for the life of her what business CUSTOMS had with her intimate correspondence and assorted panties and bras. She told the customs officers in some...
There is a character in The Satanic Verses, a scribe named Salman, who commits an unthinkable sin. His job is to write down the revelations of God as recited by Mahound, Rushdie's fictional prophet. But the mischievous scribe repeatedly changes Mahound's words. When the prophet finally realizes that...
Why have government efforts failed so miserably to slow the drug trade? Easy answers such as bureaucratic ineptitude and "they're all corrupted by drug money" aren't convincing. Many other countries have succeeded in preventing drugs from becoming a national catastrophe. But our government, as the Washington case demonstrates...
It cannot be an accident that Goya adapted Jovellanos' pose for the dreaming figure in The Sleep of Reason. He had no illusions about the distance between liberal hope and the possibility of its fulfillment. But even though present-day Republicans and their flacks have corrupted the American air with...
This mindset leads the national media to characterize in cynical terms everything our generation does. Those high school students who apply to and attend the nation's "elite" colleges are doing so, we are told, not for the intellectual atmosphere such schools can provide us with, but rather for the...