Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business in Detroit and in another novel about the same thing, John Quirk's The Hard Winners. In both books, Tony is the handsome, talented but weak vice president who aspires to the top spot in the corporation but is blackmailed and loses out because he is a corrupt womanizer. Then there's Ann. She has grown up from the plain good girl of bad novels published several seasons back and become the lovely, sexy girl Author Gilbert shows her to be today. Daringly, he makes her rich, too. But the reader can be sure that the girl...
When the psychological turning point of an ambitious epic of business is the moment when the hero refuses to let the corrupt supplier pay for his call girl -by golly, he'll pay his own way-the effect is not only meretricious but laughable...
...about the play--a current that moves below the froth of conversation. The mockery of the whores, the very emptiness of Robespierre's rhetoric, make Buechner's point: that man has no free will, that the dreary sameness of life must over-take the most heroic and the most corrupt. Reading the play, I felt this undertow. At the Loeb, I didn...
...this is to day that I have no doubt whatever that the Black Muslim movement, cheap, corrupt, and irrational as it is and as similar such have always been (exploiting the poor urban Negroes without shame or pity), had reason and will to do Malcolm X in. He represented a major threat to their influence and wealth (a few million bucks, so I'm told) and they were not going to let him tinker with it. Such use of violence by Negroes to protect petty establishments of corrupt influence and wealth is surely nothing...
Violence was a favorite topic. Denying that comics corrupt the young, Professor Fausto Bongioanni declared: "The comics prepare a child for life. Let us accept the facts; life is not sweet." "I have found a moral decline in Walt Disney's comics," announced Professor Giovanni Bertin. "The positive character Mickey Mouse has been replaced by the negative Donald Duck. The emergence of an evil Donald Duck is a bad omen for American mores...