Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cynical description of the affairs of two wideranging lovers-aided by a camera so candid that it sometimes even peeped under the bed sheets-was carefully edited before it won a permit "for adults only." For French adults, that is. Vadim was denied an export permit, lest his picture corrupt less civilized foreigners...
...ceremonial practice. We are both a Catholic and a Reformed Church. That means to say that the Church of England is the official and authorized expression of the one Catholic Church in this country. But at the same time, it has been cleansed of the abuses and corrupt doctrines of the Middle Ages." Asked if many parishioners had been converted to Roman Catholicism as a result of the ousted priest's activities, Dr. Stockwood snorted, "Perverted, not converted...
...Corrupt Priests. With care and cynicism, Author Stacton builds his theory. Egypt's priesthood, Ikhnaton's mother reflects at one point, was "a series of venal officials ... a branch of the police, and only slightly more corrupt." Yet she is well aware that "corruption is the price we have to pay for order." Her son might have realized it too, had he possessed only that measure of insanity normal to a bloodline transmitted for generations through the marriage of brother and sister. But when the priests of Amon, in the traditional coronation ceremony, pushed the new Pharaoh alone...
...Hoffa, since 1950, authorized payment of $3,000,000 of Teamsters Health and Welfare Fund money to the fund's insurance brokers in fees and commissions. The brokers were the wife and son of Paul Dorfman-"the corrupt labor leader who introduced [Hoffa] to Midwest mob society." The Dorfmans had no experience in insurance, and no office space "until a few months before Hoffa successfully maneuvered the insurance business to them early...
...Catholic-baiting legions are at last on the march in Alabama. Good. By next year, with the anti-Catholic madness reaching its peak, Southern Protestantism will again be revealed for what it is: an obscene collection of bigoted, Bible-clutching morons, the benighted cult of a corrupt and appallingly stupid society...