Word: corruptedness
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The ideal of modesty, though hardly dead, has begun to seem almost quaint. In an age when some observers think the U.S. has entered the "culture of narcissism," in the words of Christopher Lasch's study, many people think that self-effacement is tainted with hypocrisy. Says Economist John...
"Just as no one would dream of teaching Dostoyevsky or Hegel without access to their books in Widener, so no one could properly teach Sophocles or Shakespeare without access to their plays on the stage," Brustein writes in Making Scenes. This is sound reasoning to anyone who understands the difference...
Says Boston College President J. Donald Monan: "He has come to personify the most appealing values of Christianity. Its compassion, its understanding, its courage." In Rio, which the Pope visited in 1980, a resident spoke last week with corrupted theology but purity of spirit: "Everything improved here after his visit...
"There has been a rapid increase in the culture of technology. People treat computers as if they are people." Ylvisaker says. "Learning could either be corrupted or it can be facilitated by this." If education emphasizes the problems of "minorities and newcomers." Ylvisaker believes that technology will not be available...
So it is all the more offensive when the experience of sports is so rudely corrupted as it was in the Lynn trade. Of course it made sense, but that doesn't matter at all. Maybe the generation that grows up reading sports pages full of free-agency, reserve clauses...