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Germans of 40 and older, who remember how difficult it was to escape the taint of at least some minor involvement with the Nazi regime, will probably accept Lübke's explanation of his wartime activities. But the younger Germans, who see in him the failure of the older generation to stand up to the Nazis, are unlikely to be very understanding. These days, they are not very interested in explanations...
...broad spectrum of the Black Power movement, there is indeed a regrettable taint of reverse racism. With this comes the risk of erasing much that has been accomplished in all the years of civil rights activity. Within the movement, too, are seeds of violence and destruction. Yet, at its moderate best, it can be a powerful force to develop the Negro's pride and the control of his own life. On those terms, and as a temporary phenomenon, it can be a power for good and can become a step toward the truly integrated society that must...
Still, Nehemiah's decision is the predictable conclusion of a life of forgetting. He has bequeathed his children a life free of the faintest taint of the holocaust; a life which, despite the benefits of European skills and culture, he would have cherished for himself...
...average investor, put and call options have always ranked as one of the stock market's more unfathomable sideshows. Despite a lingering taint as a game best fit for crapshooters, the option business this year has swelled to unprecedented size in line with both Wall Street's speculative fever and the sharp rise in total trading. Last month the volume of options written so far in 1967 climbed to 16,264,900 shares, eclipsing the old record of 15,418,200 shares...
...needn't have ribaldry's taint Or strive to make everyone faint...