Word: corruptibles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were not enough to be one of the ugliest cities in the U.S., Pawtucket, R.I. (pop. 81,000) has in the past also been one of the most corrupt. Under the long rule of Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy, its school buildings crumbled with neglect while Democratic bosses boasted of the city's low tax rate. But McCoy died. Though his successors in the city hall were also reluctant to allocate adequate sums for school repair, in 1954 Pawtucket got a school superintendent named Edmund J. Farrell who had an urge for reform. After months of wrangling. Farrell finally...
...Admire. In the beginning, when Nasser's Free Officers overthrew corrupt and fat King Farouk, and shortly thereafter displaced Mohammed Naguib, their pipe-smoking front man, Nasser, an assistant postmaster's son and professional soldier, seemed a bright hope for a new Egypt. His smile was disarming; he confessed he knew little about running a country, but he was a plain man, plainly honest, eager to end the effete and selfish rule of the pashas. Fighting in the losing Palestine war he became convinced that his country's real problem was not Israel but the poverty...
...Corrupt Practices. There is "no room" in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for any officer "commonly known" to be "a crook, a racketeer, a Communist or a fascist." Says the code: "A union need not wait upon a criminal conviction" to fire such officials...
...Even inside Russia, the universities, if not in a revolutionary mood, were in a questioning frame of mind. Much of the debate gathered around a bestselling novel. Vladimir Dudintsev's Not By Bread Alone, the story of a brilliant young inventor who is victimized by a group of corrupt bureaucrats (standard villains of Soviet fiction) and is sent to a prison camp. Since its publication last August, Not By Bread Alone has been eagerly seized upon by millions of young Russians who find, beneath the technical jargon which covers many of its pages, a hidden symbolism, a new message...
...useless to talk too much about the movie because it explains itself, so clearly that it would be difficult to see twice. It is unlike Gide's book in which the pastor's assumptions--of his inexhaustible love, or simply of his own correctness--corrupt the world he gives to the blind girl...