Word: rottenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More Bodies. The current visibility of scandals reflects a new public attitude. "We have discarded the rotten-apple theory," says J. Terrence Brunner of Chicago's Better Government Association. "We are now working on the more accurate assumption of pervasive corruption on all levels in big cities...
...figure further, figure even preposterously, that God gives all things equally to all men. Then if mortal life is rotten for most, the soul's reward will be golden. Then too, mortal stardom as every man's dream may be the star's nightmare. As it was Gatsby's, it would later be Hollywood's. Yes, Gatsby's falling star might have seen it writ in the stars that he and his kind would pass on the dreams of America to Hollywood. The talent though not the creed would change, and the next generation of immortals might be his progeny...
Harvard humiliated Brown last week in Providence in a race that meant more than some people suppose. The weather in Providence was rotten and the water consequently quite rough, working to the advantage of the more powerful Crimson crew. But the real reason for Harvard's six length victory was its own talent--not weather or Brown's lack of ability...
...Aside from painting a smear of communist politics in "We," Shapiro attacks the '69 activists for having been too impatient, which is to say too anxious to destroy rotten institutions, or to put it more simply, too communistic. Thus Shapiro uses Lenin to attack "Lenin...
...C.R.P.'s sordid political involvements. Sloan led the reporters onto the fact that funds for the burglary came from C.R.P. Among other sources who pepper the book's pages with their tips: "the Bookkeeper," a conscience-stricken woman who served C.R.P.'s finance chairman, Maurice Stans. "Something is rotten in Denmark and I'm part of it," she tremblingly warned Bernstein in her home one night a few weeks after the breakin...