Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corrupt for Kids. Dissension was kept alive on his squad, said Cherberg in newspaper interviews and a televised speech last week, "by threats to players that they would be cut off from outside aid if they joined me ... A player loyal to me was offered a $50 a month deal from a downtown source to join the movement against...
...Secretary of State Earl Coe demanded that Governor Arthur B. Langlie fire Cassill and Everest, and investigate the strange silence of University President Henry Schmitz (who last year banned Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from the Washington campus). Cowboy Cherberg kept talking: "The filthiest thing in the world is to corrupt young Americans with dough. I may never coach again, but God willing, I'm not going to let them corrupt any more kids...
...moralist. Yet his moral is perhaps the worst thing about the book. The old machine boss grew out of the necessities of ward politics and immigrant life, just as the new TV-conscious politician is shaped by the realities of mass education and mass sophistication. Both types can be corrupt, but the most corrupt thing in politics remains the destructive, naively cynical idea that all politicians are crooks-or admen...
...with the golden arm with a new and almost cat-like power and precision. Sinatra's virtuosity also seems to have inspired the other members of the cast, for most of them give unusually fine performances. Arnold Stang, as a musy little thief, somehow manages to appear both corrupt and appealing, while Kim Novak, as a girl who loves Frankie, gives the rather routine character of "the other woman" considerable stature through an astute bit of underacting...
...century that they were collected and edited under St. Gregory the Great, who was Pope from 590 to 604. Gregorian Chant, the music of the church, was practically the only written music in Europe during the early Middle Ages, but with the Renaissance, a new flamboyance began to corrupt the ancient Latin prayer-songs. In the 19th century, the old Catholic music was saved, almost singlehanded, by the Abbey of Solesmes...