Word: corruptedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
So valuable are Notre Dame's name and symbols that on occasion it has licensed Hollywood to use them at a tidy profit to itself. Twentieth Century-Fox, however, got no permission before plunging ahead with a film in which a befuddled Notre Dame football team is corrupted by...
"Corrupted Version." That night, in a speech before university students, Humphrey really put on a show of oratorical fine arts. Now he was the student of political history, invoking the names of political philosophers from centuries past; now, his voice laden with emotion, he was the perfect partisan. Cried he...
Now the Feast. Then Paris was drab, hungry and humiliated, poisoned by haphazard action against collaborationists, corrupted by the black market, weakened by class hatreds and inflation. Now its buildings are resplendent as the result of cleaning and restoration; the Parisian feasts at the most majestic table in the world...
Richard Condon's apocalyptic pocketa-pocketa has produced a resplendent collection of giants, ogres and drowsy princesses, all flimsily disguised as people. They reappear in this grim foray into Hitler-corrupted Germany, but the author of The Manchurian Candidate has turned from dismayed humor to dismaying homily. Condon'...
Essayist Kronenberger is the coolest of U.S. society's critics; where others whack away with club and cutlass, Kronenberger sits back and throws darts, quietly but accurately. Among targets: "taste makers and pace setters" who, he believes, have failed to lead U.S. culture to greatness; the system that has...