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People listened, understood and got the message. Time magazine arrived at the scene and suddenly satire had become commercial. Everybody was it. "Attack us!" came the cry from the audience across the land, attack our corrupt middle class values. We will laugh as long as you don't make us listen. We will applaud as long as you don't ask us to think...
Harvard students are "decadent, degenerate, and morally corrupt," according to Huang Ch'ang, associate professor of physics, Peking University, who claims to have studied for several years at Harvard during some undisclosed time in the past...
...exists. Why can't the students get a better and fairer deal? If we can't run it ourselves we can at least investigate it. Where is the Student Council (or whatever it is called), the CRIMSON, the House Committees? Why must we suffer under this humiliating and corrupt machine which is controlled by a too-easily-influenced elite group of retired jocks...
...blocked by a political friend turned foe: Philadelphia Democratic Boss William Joseph Green Jr., 52, the rosy-faced, soft-spoken son of an Irish saloonkeeper. It was Green who first helped Dilworth toward public office; in 1951 Dilworth was part of a reform ticket that ended 67 years of corrupt Republican rule in Philadelphia. But Green soon came to consider Blueblood Dilworth too independent, and a bit of a snob to boot; and Dilworth had little feeling for Old Pro Green's brand of politicking. After Dilworth became mayor in 1956, Green feuded with him regularly over Philadelphia patronage...
Tipping the Scales. Candidates cannonaded each other with a barrage of epithets. So corrupt and inefficient is Congress, raged Chakravarti Rajagopalachari. leader of the free-enterprise Swatantra Party, that "it is time for us to open our umbrellas to protect ourselves against the heavy drizzle of Congress maladministration." The party, "C.R." continued, is only Nehru's "donkey ... a band of bakasuras [mythological Hindu demons], a swarm of locusts, a band of tyrants." Retorted Nehru: "He is cursing for the sake of cursing." Lashing out against the Swatantra's threat to his doctrinaire brand of socialism, Nehru said: "Rajaji...