Word: taint
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Here the stigmata, the brand, the taint, are clearly seen: the error of wearing white bucks for so solemn and evening, the misdemeanor of a soft, stammering voice, the felony of too loud and sure a one, the atrocity of a blue suit, here sitting a couple of silent boys with slanted eyes and yellow skin, from here the man who was academically first in the class leaving in discouragement to join Prospect, and here, recurring nearly two times out of every three, Israel's immemorial face is seen; the class has sixteen Merit Scholars, ten were in trouble...
...school that his nine-year-old daughter attends. "I was driving by the school with my wife," he explained, "and I said I was going to paint that school. I meant I'd bid on it some time. But it kept coming back to my mind. It said, Taint it,' and I answered, Taint it?' 'Yes,' it said. Taint it for nothing.' And I said, 'Oh, no, not for nothing.' I was talking to myself, and it kept coming back. It stayed on my mind every day until mid-December...
...Dwight Harrington Terry Foundation lectures at Yale. Author West agrees with Turgenev, who said: "There is not one of us but recognizes in the prince . . . our own characteristics." But the characteristics that men really recognize are neither noble aspirations nor irresoluteness: men see, in fact, their own traits of taint and corruption. Hamlet is stamped with Original Sin. Hamlet cannot be "pure"-nor can mankind. This is the message that people have managed to ignore for three centuries, because they have found it too unpleasant...
Britain's good grey BBC, stiffly challenged by commercial TV, has been denying for months that it plans to cater to anything so vulgar as popular taste. Its critics have seen the taint of the common touch in the BBC's decision to accent TV while lopping two hours daily off the five-hour highbrow Third Program. But last week they could take heart in a new appointment. As chairman of its board of governors with complete control over all radio and TV programs, the BBC named Rugby Headmaster Sir Arthur fforde, 56, who does...
...which he insists is a "purely medical subject," from Nazi ideas of selective breeding: "It rests definitely on the principle of voluntariness. Genetic-hygiene measures are taken exclusively at the desire of the persons concerned. Experience shows that patients, after having been informed on the significance of the hereditary taint, nearly always follow their doctor's advice." He does not explain how a mentally defective patient can understand the medical and social considerations involved, or how "voluntariness" can be achieved...