Word: corruptedness
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This preposterous attempt to make a hero of Stephen Ward fitted in with the scatterbrained, left-wing politics of most of the signers, Britain's Angry Middle-aged Men, who used him to demonstrate that the Establishment and British society in general are rotten. Amid all this sudden sympathy...
Caricature, Not Character. For all his crimes, Messkirch is a sympathetic character. Not so the chief character of The Birthday King, by British Novelist Gabriel Fielding. Ruprecht Weidmann is the scion of a wealthy manufacturing family that has a slight admixture of Jewish blood and is trying desperately to get...
The Party, by Rudolph von Abele. At a grand and lurid party, a decent German soldier - symbolizing humanitarians everywhere - is thoroughly corrupted by an immensely attractive and utterly unscrupulous Nazi warlord.
Macapagal's political enemies charged that deportation was too good for Stone-hill. Said Jose Diokno, former Justice Minister who was dismissed in May by the President: "How can the government now prosecute the corrupted when it has allowed the corrupter to go?"
Nowadays, said Father Walsh, there is little likelihood that episcopal elections could be corrupted, and lay voting for bishops-with ultimate approval reserved to the Pope-might well cause Catholics to "show more concern for the cares and worries of their religious leader." Moreover, the restoration of episcopal election could...