Word: corrupters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loves him, the odds are overwhelming that within minutes she will turn whore or he pimp; if someone puts money in his pocket, probably stolen, someone else will steal it; if a character speaks of honor, loyalty, progress-and particularly religion-chances are that he is merely masking a corrupt and greedy deal. This kind of unrelieved, often naive cynicism, heavily tinged with Marxism, has defeated many another writer. But at his best Brecht has risen above it and fashioned a rich, varied, often hilarious dramatic world in which the sold souls do not always stay bought, the villains...
...said: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely...
...line baking-powder company a technological transfusion. Instead he sees his dream bleed to death in the barracuda waters of corporate executive suites. "Man is a creature that builds institutions," writes Dos Passos. The larger moral of Midcentury is that these institutions in turn grow so big and rigid, corrupt and powerful that they crush and entrap the builders. Whether it is bigness or power spawned by bigness that corrupts, big labor can scarcely deny Dos Passos' damning indictment of the "denial of the working man's most elementary rights, the underworld's encroachment on the world...
Alyosha is very nearly a stock hero. Certainly he possesses all the deadly virtues. But Ivashov plays the role gently, with humor (shrewdly bribing an officiously corrupt train guard, telling white lies to the father of the soldier whose wife is unfaithful), and humanity (when as last he meets his mother they squander their moment together in awkward small talk); he is convincing. Shura's part is acted with purity and directness. This young Russian actress has a face so lovely that I didn't even resent Alyosha's soppy flashback memories...
...high tradition of civility, who goes busily and happily about his work a domesticated and law-abiding man engaged in the construction of a philosophy to put an end to all philosophy This is perennially the work of the barbarian to undermine rational standards of judgment, to corrupt the inherited intuitive wisdom by which the people have always lived, and to do this not by spreading new beliefs but by creating a climate of doubt and bewilderment in which clarity about the larger aims of life is dimmed and the self-confidence of the people is destroyed...