Word: corruptness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What is astounding about the present administration is not its corruption (most of Haiti's governments have been corrupt) but rather the degree of corruption. Today Haiti provides its President with five palaces, a private police force known as the "Ton-ton Macoute" (which is Creole for "bogeymen"), and countless sources of income. In a nation with a 10 per cent literacy rate, high unemployment, and a 50 per cent infant mortality rate, only 15 per cent of the budget goes for operations, while 85 per cent is spent on salaries for the dictator's associates. The government's response...
...language, Roman Catholic religion and cultural identity. Just the same, Quebec's citizens believe that their status is still second-class. Partly, French Canadians can blame themselves. For nearly two decades, Quebec was ruled as the personal fief of Premier Maurice Duplessis, who held the province in corrupt, paternalistic thrall. Only after he died could French Canada see clearly where it stood in relation to the rest of the country...
...York crowds," writes Algren, dead serious for once. "One that took its cut off the traffic in horses and fighters around St. Nick's Arena, and the other that took its cut off the traffic in books. Plungers and chiselers alike, I'd found, were less corrupt than Definitive Authorities on D. H. Lawrence. The corruption of the sporting crowd was that of trying to get two tens for a five off you, but the corruption of the throngs of the cocktail Kazins went deeper." For the non-inside dopester, Alfred Kazin is an able and dedicated critic...
...despises corrupt literary cocktail parties, Algren seems to have survived a lot of them without letting his hosts or fellow guests suspect his feeling. The "throngs" that saw him off on his temporary emigration were as corrupt a crew of notable names as ever were dropped. His acquaintance included Bennett Surface, a characteristic Algren joke-name notable for being an even dimmer joke than any pulled by the original. And the pansy routine Algren sets going between a literary character named Norman Manlifellow and a "deeply tanned" writer named Giovanni is good for a yak, even though the material might...
...Gospel's move into nightclubs (where Negroes call it "ofay gospel") does not necessarily corrupt either singers or songs. But its adoption by the popular-record industry gives good reason for melancholy. To succeed with the predominantly teen-age audience, it will be hyped up and sanitized to the point of becoming grotesque. At the Sweet Chariot (where the rest rooms are labeled "Brothers" and "Sisters" and the bar girls are called "Angels"), two of the groups have already had their names changed by Columbia, and no doubt they will soon begin to sing arrangements of their music that...