Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wagner's book covers the various fields of Lewis' attacks with scholarly care. Lewis' distaste for democracy ("a democracy necessarily is a corrupt and disorderly type of government") and his sporadic enthusiasms for fascism are well discussed, as are his quarrel with the cubist school of painting, his feud with Joyce, and his vigorous anti-Bergsonism. His own books are also discussed in considerable detail...
Claude Rains, as the wary French Prefect of Police, a "poor, corrupt official" who must work with the Gestapo, cannot decide whether French or German grass is greener, and so sits between on a sharp picket fence. As Victor Laslo, Paul Henreid plays a leader of various resistance movements who has eluded the Germans once too often; his acting shows what a man tortured in a concentration camp must endure...
GALVESTON, Tex., April 16--The Teamsters' top command declared today that AFL-CIO accusations of corrupt influences were unsupported by specific charges and that it would attend no hearings until "fundamentals of fair adjudication" are assured...
...vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for "bringing the labor movement into disrepute"; 2) suspend Beck as an A.F.L.-C.I.O. vice president pending a verdict; 3) direct the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Ethical Practices Committee to investigate whether Beck's Teamsters Union is "substantially dominated or controlled by corrupt influences...
...Chatterley's Lover has caused a considerable amount of excitement ever since its publication in 1928, but the French motion picture based on the book is not likely to arouse much discussion. Despite the Beacon Hill's prominent "Adults Only" signs, there is little in the film which might corrupt youths. To be sure, a discussion of what might be called the metaphysics of sexuality forms the core of the picture, buit it is treated with such careful circumspection that the result is little more than dull...