Word: corruptedness
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A previous uproar over a marijuana bust in the high school early this year had already upset the townspeople. They are increasingly convinced that their children are being corrupted in the high school, and they do not know what to do about it.
In fact, the best scenes are those set in the suffocating, sealed-off community of the homosexual-scenes as diabolic and profaning as a witches' sabbath. Here, in the gay parks and bars frequented by people in "the van of decadence," is modern hell for sure. And Yuichi-make...
And so the eulogies to King and his non-violence are more distressing than soothing, for they reveal whites embracing the style, simplicity, and emotional sincerity of King's crusades, not their content. The abrupt white rediscovery of reverence for King is corrupted by a Machiavellian awareness of its repressive...
Commager, an American historian now on the faculty at Amherst College, explored American attempts to refute the French philosophes--who maintained that nature in the New World was degenerate, that the animals were undersized, that the natives were undersexed, and that Europe might be corrupted.
He returned the favor by emancipating U.S. youth from the life view of that other campus Pied Piper, J. D. Salinger. Salinger and Golding have enjoyed almost prophetic status with the young, and the young have been right to elevate these two against trend spotters and opinion makers. Each gave...