Word: corrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western standards, he is. He controls the press, has jailed many opponents. But Ayub is really no more dictatorial than most Asian or African rulers, and more effective than many. After he seized power six years ago from a democratic but corrupt government, Ayub paternalistically promulgated the very constitution under which the general elections are being held. Among other things, Ayub's constitution allows women to run for office-something he may now regret. He developed a system of indirect elections called "Basic Democracy," under which voters are to choose 80,000 "basic democrats," or electors, who will cast...
...Anchor scholars have had to abandon some of the King James Version's most striking images, which often stemmed from misreadings of a corrupt text. Gone from Speiser's Genesis, for example, is Joseph's coat of many colors. "It's a wonderful technicolored effect," says Speiser. "But we had to put it in mothballs. In those days everybody wore a coat of many colors. Besides, the Hebrew clearly states that he wore an ornamented tunic...
Despite an occasional stab of wit, Bergman's portrait of the artist as the victim of his fickle followers and corrupt critics, if it is funny at all, is heavy, testy humor. Teeth clenched, he wields the apparatus of slapstick boldly, but draws neither laughs nor blood because his northern variations on 8½ do not lend themselves to pie-in-the-face comedy. Even the most accomplished cinema stylist can scarcely hope, perhaps, to be the Fellini of the frost belt and a Scandinavian Sennett at the same time...
Germans. Italian Journalist Barzini finds his countrymen self-centered, corrupt and instinctively theatrical. But, unwittingly, he celebrates their warmth, spontaneity and fierce individuality...
Heads on a Pole. Khan found himself suddenly in the debt of another aspirant to his thankless job. Ky's group demands that Khanh clean house on all "corrupt, dishonest and counterrevolutionary" army officers, civil servants and profiteers-and threatens Khanh's ouster if those rather sweeping conditions are not met. But who is to say who, in all of South Viet Nam, is "corrupt, dishonest and counter-revolutionary"? Now, in addition to the steady pressures exerted on him by Catholics and Buddhists, Punch Toy Premier Khanh faces the even more random fists of self-seeking Young Turks...