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...brink of all his mighty spiritual endeavors. Therefore man is tempted to deny the limited character of his knowledge, and the finiteness of his perspectives. He pretends to have achieved a degree of knowledge which is beyond the limit of finite life. This is the 'ideological taint' in which all human knowledge is involved and which is always something more than mere human ignorance. It is always partly an effort to hide that ignorance by pretension." This is pre-eminently the sin of the 20th Century...
...Andrew Jackson as one of its earliest trustees; Peabody Library still preserves a biography on whose flyleaf Old Hickory scrawled a withering estimate of his biographer. But it was a damyankee merchant named George Peabody and his $2,000,000 that put Peabody on its feet. Despite this taint, most of Peabody's 1,850 students still come from the South, and President Henry Harrington Hill expects his 125-man faculty and 60,000 alumni to concentrate on Southern schools...
...insisted that free speech and fair play had been guaranteed, even to the misguided opposition. Foreign newsmen estimated that 1,200,000 voters had been disfranchised, including several aged Jewish women who had escaped from the Nazis' crematory camp at Auschwitz, and who nevertheless were accused of "Fascist taint." Some of the disfranchised had lost their votes after the deadline for appeal. Spokesman Boldizar was asked if he thought this was fair play. "Well," he said, "no election laws are perfect...
Talent with a Taint. Eddie Lewis, the narrator, is a pressagent, prey to the pressagent's stock neurosis: Shall I go on prostituting my talent for dough or shall I bravely become a Serious Writer? A nice girl, Beth, thinks Eddie should be brave, but his boss, Nick Latka, has a big thing for him to build up-a giant Argentine with a glass jaw who can be babied and ballyhooed into a heavyweight contender. This game appeals to Eddie and so does his promised cut of the proceeds, so he takes leave of Beth and swings...
...said: "Strong winds are blowing all over Asia. Let us not be afraid of them but rather welcome them, for only with them can we build the new Asia of our dreams." Last week, in the lands where more than half the human race lives, the winds bore the taint of death...