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...Police are pigs. They are sadistic, corrupt, envious and acne-scarred...
...taken as symbols of transformation are themselves further signs of decline. Our age is apocalyptic, which means that human or institutional failings of any kind can become the occasion for total refusal, so that whatever is solid and firm in our tradition is abandoned along with whatever is corrupt." Stating his apocalyptic vision at the start, Brustein uses it as the context for a criticism of everything from Kingman Brewster to the Living Theatre...
This is not to say that all Laotian generals are so corrupt and hypocritical. Some of them are quite fired up about "following orders" and contributing to the genocide of their countrymen. One has been faithfully utilizing CIA funds and personnel for eight years, training tribesmen to fight other tribesmen trained by the North Vietnamese...
Under the despotic reign of his father, Sultan Said bin Taimur, Muscat and Oman* as the country was known before Qabus shortened the name-was not far removed from the 15th century. Fearful that social and economic development would corrupt traditional Islamic values, Said turned his land, perched on the southeastern hump of Arabia near the gates of the Persian Gulf, into a 112,000-sq.-mi. jail...
...serious armed resistance to the manifestors of American destiny. Decades of worthless treaties, search-and-destroy missions, pacification programs, enforced relocations and free-fire zones ended there. The remnants of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Apache and other tribes were concentrated on unfertile, game-poor reservations, where they were bilked by corrupt agents and died of disease, malnutrition and melancholia...