Word: corrupters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half-quizzical, wholly anguished cry of a man bothered by the mystery of evil and man's sinfulness. Like Luther before him and Calvin afterwards, Zwingli discovered his solution in the unadorned Word of God, and not in the papal teachings of the corrupt, corrupting, 16th century Roman Church. Zwingli thus became the architect of the Swiss Reformation. But he remains the least known of the great Protestant fathers. His story has now been told with sympathy and scholarship by Genevan Pastor-Historian Jean Rilliet, in Zwingli: Third Man of the Reformation (Westminster...
...both guns drawn. It reduces the complexities of foreign policy to simple emotional terms that have wide appeal in the American experience-the rugged individualism of the pioneer, the gun-slinging marshal of the frontier town, the expedition of marines to clean out the pirates in Barbary or the corrupt governments of the Caribbean...
Deep Offense. In his first nationwide broadcast, the new Prime Minister promised to overhaul the nation's creaky, corrupt bureaucracy. While reaffirming Nehru's policy of nonalignment, Shastri pointedly quoted only one foreign leader, Lyndon Johnson, who had said that the world's best tribute to Nehru would be peace. Shastri held out a warm hand of friendship to neighboring Pakistan, regretting that the two countries have been so long at odds over Kashmir, and praised Pakistan's recent peace proposals as showing "wisdom and understanding." As for Red China, Shastri declared that Peking "has wronged...
...original described a masked ball at which the vulgar Prince Prospero and all his company succumb when Death appears disguised as a plague victim. In the elegant, elongated movie version, Prospero is a Satanist who scourges the entire 12th century countryside. He tortures peasants, tries to corrupt a village maid, and lets his pet dwarf barbecue a guest. Fortunately, by the time Death gets to the party, most of the nicer people have fled...
Flawed Memories. The first Cheever in America was a Puritan schoolmaster who was eulogized by Cotton Mather for "his untiring abjuration of the devil" and who believed that "man is full of misery and all earthly beauty is lustful and corrupt." Cheever's mother and her parents emigrated from England, and, he says, "there was a certain air of shabby gentility about the whole thing. I hate to speak about the twilight of Athenian Boston and all that, but Cousin Randall would play two Beethoven sonatas after dinner, and everyone would sit around and belch...