Word: venal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is venal and profane desecration of the sacred banks where the successful (and totally non-violent) American civil rights revolution, and the revolutions in India and South Africa, found their roots...
Please make this venal philistinism a concern of yours so that the nation can learn what is being done to the heart of the town where her revolution, her literary golden age, came to flower...
...many pundits, historians and Republican politicians eulogized him as a great but tragic figure who had managed to achieve redemption after slithering away from the Presidency in disgrace. This portrayal is a ludicrous misrepresentation of a man who actually attempted to impose his own brand of vicious and venal fascism on America. Yet, partially due to such revisionism, Nixon is almost certain to fare better in the historical record than his first vice president Spiro Agnew, who died two weeks...
Everyone has many terrible vows to keep, many beautiful secrets to reveal. Venal jailers stroke their fancy mustaches. The sound effects are volcanic: a slap stings like a bullwhip. Benazir goes mad, her daughter grows up to be a race-car driver, the policeman's daughter becomes a cop and helps track down Habibullah's brother (who spits out his evil threats on a cellular phone--suddenly we're in today's India), and everything climaxes in an Armageddon of gunplay. With music...
...over to shoot the wounded. Is it the job of jackboot reporters in this country to conduct house-to-house searches, ransacking private lives for every disreputable little secret, driving quarry to such humiliation that their only refuge is self-destruction? Shame on my profession! To hell with its venal careerism, its hypocrisy, its prurience, its pietistic ruthlessness...