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...unchallenged. Nearly all Frenchmen, de Gaulle maintained, played their part in the Resistance, with moral support if not active aid. Only a few collaborators had betrayed the nation, and they had been punished after the war. Once the vast majority of the French people had been cleared of any taint of guilt, a wide spectrum of political groups could re-enter French politics on a roughly equal basis regardless of the real role they played during the war. The chief French culture heroes of the '50s and '60s, Camus and Sartre, each had connections with the Resistance that persuaded Leftist...
Whether Dole can completely escape the taint of Watergate and Washington is the crucial question. For there is no doubt that the transgressions of Nixon & Co. are hurting his chances in a state which, if substantially Republican, is also highly moral in its outlook...
THIS HEIGHTENED awareness of private neurosis alerts her to the general taint and prompts an interesting argument. In a review of Tennessee Williams's play, The Rose Tatoo, Maxwell Geismar--a Marxist critic--deplores Williams's detachment from the mainstream of American literature. Convinced that literature should be a function of politics, any preoccupation with sheer emotion irks him. The "people," he contends, aren't infected. Nin perceives an undercurrent in American life that sucks in more than a peripheral minority--making neurotics less than special. Williams, she responds, has prophesied a cultural illness...
Until the Indian test, there was a general if naive belief that nations outside the club would be constrained from producing nuclear weapons by the widespread moral revulsion against such arsenals. India's explosion, however, has removed much of the taint of going nuclear. In a wave of empathetic machismo following the test, Buenos Aires' independent daily La Opinion declared: "India is more respectable now." New Delhi insists that its nuclear "devices" will be used for peaceful purposes only, such as petroleum and natural-gas exploration. Most experts snicker at the disclaimer. "A bang is a bang...
...While the Vatican seeks to rid Catholicism of any colonial taint in Portuguese Africa, the liberal Protestant South African Council of Churches has taken a bold stand against racism in its own country. At a recent national conference, council delegates passed a strong resolution warning that racial tension in South Africa is leading to "violence and war." And if it came to this, the council added, Christians should seriously question whether they could participate in armed battle against liberation forces. The resolution reasoned that both "Catholic and Reformation theology" teach that Christians can only participate in a just...