Word: corruptedness
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Two Parts Grease. Last week in his "Strictly Personal" column, syndicated in 16 papers around the U.S., Harris walloped writers of swashbuckling historical novels; rose to the defense of unstuffy clergymen ("Dull[ness] and pompous[ness] . . . has nothing to recommend it, neither piety nor good sense"); punctured the idea that...
The extreme penalty-excommunication from the local church-often amounted to political exile. In 1640, Sister Temperance Sweet was cast out of the First Church of Boston for giving "entertainment to disorderly Company & ministering unto ym wine & strong waters even unto Drunkenesse & yt not wth out some iniquity both in...
What's good about the theater today? "Its honesty," says Nathan between chain-smoking puffs. "In the earlier days, the playwrights couldn't tell the whole truth about people and characters." What's bad about it? "For one thing, the new producers. In the last few years...
Tears & Laughter. Mossadegh does not promise his country a way out of this nearly hopeless situation. He would rather see the ruin of Iran than give in to the British, who, in his opinion, corrupted and exploited his country. He is not in any sense pro-Russian, but he intends...
"All this, while intended and designed to strengthen freedom's defense," he says, "carries within itself the very germs of freedom's destruction. For it etches the pattern to a military state which, historically under the control of professional military thinking, in constant search for means toward efficiency...