Word: corruptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earnest sister his motivation for running: "God made me fast, and when I run I feel His pleasure." Liddell plans on a missionary career in China, but first he must spread public awareness of the Lord by himself acquiring worldwide renown. His sister fears that fame will corrupt the purity of his soul, but she needn't worry. Liddell refuses to race in the Olympic preliminary heats because they occur on Sunday; instead, he delivers a sermon in church...
...joined the Communist Revolution in 1948. Like "80 per cent of the students and intellectuals," says Yao, he "did not join because of any Marxist orientation, or because we were Russophiles," but because of the ruling government of Chian Kai-Shek--a regime he considered full of "the most corrupt animals, I won't even say humans...
...compassion, he means the axioms of the New Deal and the Vietnam generation: we must give some minimum amount of aid to those who do not compete effectively in our economy; we should avoid full-scale invasions of other nations, especially if we do so in support of corrupt dictators. And by realism blended with compassion, he means just what he implies--in all things moderation. "What we need is less rhetoric and more common sense. Fewer pendulum swings and more steady courses. Less antipathy between the public and private sectors and more cooperation," he writes, and since Tsongas...
Underlying--and overshadowing--these trends is a simple truth: Big time capitalists and conservative ideologues are succeeding in their attempt to paint labor unions as greedy, unecessary, corrupt and bad for the economy. There are the glossy ads of the National Right to Work committee, which is gaining dangerous political clout, especially in the anti-union South. There was the next-to-needless baseball strike, with the slightly revolting sight of vastly overpaid and underworked players demanding more. And now there is the most popular president in recent memory taking to nationwide t.v. to infer that striking air traffic controllers...
Much of the evening is monstrously funny, but there is an odor of acrid black comedy to it, possibly because Foreman views Don Juan as "a radical with no place to go" in a corrupt society. Molière's Don Juan is radical only in his supreme egoism. He is a law unto himself, a one-man Fifth Estate. He is as cool a rationalist as he is hot a hedonist...