Word: corruptedness
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When Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. started a price war last spring, it trimmed the tag on Sunbeam Mixmasters to $26.59, more than $3 below the wholesale price. Last week Sunbeam slapped a $6,000,000 triple-damages suit on Macy's, charging it had unlawfully restrained...
"The Age of Michael," by James Chace, is an excellent characterization of a family once rulers of a New England mill town. As the mills move south and the aristocratic tradition built on them crumbles, a generation in transition is coarsened and corrupted. The writing is mainly descriptive, switching skillfully...
Modest Yes. Faulkner lets Temple tell most of the story in confessional flashbacks. To set her sordid saga in symbolic perspective, however, he flanks dramatic dialogue with three incantatory prose sections. Flush with rhetoric and folk humor, these evoke what Faulkner himself calls "the vast splendid limitless panorama of America...
Young Mohammed was educated in the shadow of the Shah's palace. Between assignments in classical Persian and Arabic, he hunted gazelles and wild pigs with the favorites of the Shah's court. His mother, a woman with a strong social conscience, took him with her on her...
Neither Dorgan nor McCarthy could call themselves political philosophers, but they know what they hate. Earnestly, almost desperately, they want to go on record against Communism. In the process, with much table-pounding and references to the "hills of Korea," they never forgot the gallery. "Let them stay," McCarthy said...