Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your coverage of The Great Gatsby [March 18] omitted a great irony in the production of the movie. In his novel, F.S. Fitzgerald removes the facade of wealth by portraying how it can corrupt morals, foster waste and breed human carelessness. Absurd how his admonishment to "beware the American dream" is so carelessly discarded by the makers of this extravaganza. I question if they did indeed read the book...
...thought the U.S. had laws punishing indecent exposure and immorality. Apparently there are none or nobody cares to enforce them. How corrupt American society is becoming...
...industrialized world, the worst inflations generally accompanied wars or revolutions, or struck countries that had tried to live beyond their means. Inflation might be endemic in some nations of Latin America and Asia, but the rich countries could smugly dismiss that as the consequence of chronically weak or corrupt governments...
Chastened by the outcry, Perk last week relented and added four laymen to the commission; but the clergymen remain in the majority. A smart investigator, after all, need not be a prosecutor or a lawyer. Indeed, a corrupt cop might just be more willing to confess to clergymen, if only because they can keep secrets...
...publication for two months so that the FBI could look into the evidence for possible federal violations. Despite the embarrassment to Lugar, the younger Pulliam decided the story could wait no longer. "It's more important," he told Star Managing Editor Bob Early, "to clean up a corrupt police department than to worry about winning an election...