Word: corruptible
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...published in China. But Chinese dramatists have been persistently bold since the Western-style art form was restored in 1979. In the past two years, dozens of plays have criticized China's shortcomings, stressed the personal hardships caused by political turmoil and savagely lampooned leaders who were corrupt or incompetent. Dramatists have also dealt gingerly with what Tsao calls the "once forbidden zone" of love...
...other side, the videotapes the FBI took of Myers' sessions with the phony Arab businessmen should take its toll. The voters have never before been able to observe their congressman in the act of sealing a corrupt deal and the visceral impact should be far more damaging that the second hand accounts from hearings of politicians charged with scandal in the past...
...political process has been very much overreformed," Ernest R. May, professor of History, argues. "The effort to get rid of corrupt influence was carried so far that it has prevented people who really care about politics from having any voice. People used to be able to have a greater voice by their contributions of time, effort, money and ideas." For better or for worse, the parties and the professionals have lost their grip: the choice, says Harvey C. Mansfield '53, professor of Government, "has gotten out of the hands of responsible characters...
...brought about by ERA marchers, civil libertarians, environmentalists, welfare programs or liberal courts. It will be at the hands of pushbutton zealots who can tolerate only one way of living and thinking, and who attack all other perspectives and philosophies of life as sinful and corrupt...
While serving as the Times' Nairobi bureau chief, Lamb chronicled eight wars that raged across the continent, involving 15 African nations. He reported on corrupt Zairean president Mobutu, who has enshrined "Mobutuism" as his nation's official philosophy, and on Idi Amin, who for eight years ruled Uganda under a system in which "human flesh was cheaper than beef...