Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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National development is not supposed to be a juggernaut demanding the sacrifice of freedom of speech and justice. What developing countries cannot afford is not the luxury of a critical press, but the white elephant of an inept or corrupt government. Only a critical press can keep the government on its toes or put misguided national development back on the right track...
...open the party to more direct democratic participation have ended by destroying the party's formal structure. The McGovernites were, many of them, college-educated, upper-middle-class, amateur political activists, schooled in Viet Nam and civil rights protest, who regarded the old party boss structures as morally corrupt. The Watergate era, which made all party politicians vaguely suspect, led many candidates (including Jimmy Carter) to minimize their party affiliations, virtually to deny them. And television allowed candidates to project themselves directly upon the electorate's psyches without the mediation and benediction of the party...
...will become an irrelevant profession, for without voters agreeing to increases in the current levels of taxation, little new can be done. And so young men and women not yet wedded to the profession will gradually drift out of the political arena. That they will take with them the corrupt, unable to feed off the bones the tax-slashers leave behind them, is small solace...
...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...
...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...