Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first dwelt in a creation called Middle-earth but then retired to Valinor. The Valar loved the light and planted two trees, Telperion and Laurelin, wherein was the source of the light of the world. But one of the Valar, a renegade named Morgoth, envied the light, wishing to corrupt and control Middle-earth...
...most exacerbated sense of crisis, despair and hope-the years between Sarajevo and the Wall Street crash, the time of the Great War, the Russian Revolution and the Weimar Republic. This was the last period in which the dream of the engaged avant-garde seemed credible: that corrupt societies could be toppled and Utopias created with the aid of art. How Dada, surrealism, constructivism and the Bauhaus articulated this dream-and witnessed its failure-is the broad subject of these shows...
...tired of straining your brain in search of the subtleties behind some of the recent message plays rolling off of Broadway, then Chicago, with its roaringly corrupt if not accurate version of the '20s, is an honest escape...
Certain friends, from Howard Cosell to a Marxist novelist, see a foul conspiracy at play. The press is corrupt. Club owners buy and sell journalists. The press is a tool of sports management. Why don't I write that...
...these twists and turns, the mixing of deceit and truth, the use of corrupt means for noble ends, seem to have inhibited serious assessment of Johnson so far. Around Washington last week there was a thought or two that maybe Johnson, already so suspect, would have less distance to fall than some who had left office on loftier notes. There is a group of politicians, for which Johnson may qualify, who have come out of the seamy regions of American life and used the devious rituals learned to gain power, but have also held a certain reverence for the system...