Word: politicization
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Prokofiev: Oratorio, Op. 124 (Choirs and State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R. conducted by Samuel Samossoud; Vanguard). Prokofiev's latest (1950) composition to reach U.S. shores. The message is the expected and politic one of the clear skies and a bright future, but there is plenty of drama in the...
Through the Shoals. The delegates' inattention was not necessarily evidence that they did not care what was in the platform. They knew that the resolutions committee had, as usual, compromised, steered through the shoals and employed politic generalities. Before the platform got to the floor, the drafters had planed...
There were hard, practical reasons for Nelly's success as well as soft, womanly ones. Charles was always a bit weak in the exchequer-once during his reign the funds in the national treasury dwindled to one pound, two shillings and tenpence-and lowborn Nelly was cheaper to keep...
In the continuity of British life, in the strength of the fabric of its body politic-of so much sterner stuff, despite all buffetings, than that of any other European nation-in its fidelity to the old standards, combined with its curiosity about new horizons-in all these things there...
Cancer in the Body Politic. Sir Hartley Shawcross, then the Laborite Attorney General, eloquently voiced the uncompromising British attitude toward corruption in public office: "Our whole system of government rests upon public confidence in the honor and integrity of those whether as ministers or civil servants who are the officers...