Word: taints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Newcastle. Daniel Defoe was once put in the stocks in 18th century London for writing a treatise against the political power of the church. He promptly penned a poem about the experience and had it hawked in the very street where he was taking his punishment. A similar entrepreneurial taint clouds Alvarez's effort. He makes a fine brisk guide to changing historic attitudes toward suicide: Roman Stoics practiced it gladly; romantic poets preached it madly; the early Christians pursued de facto suicide by avidly seeking martyrdom, until in A.D. 412 Saint Augustine declared the act a mortal...
...American life when a city bloomed with pride to host a national political convention. The 1968 debacle in Chicago changed all that. San Diego never wanted the Republicans this year in the first place. At the news last week that the G.O.P., faced with myriad logistical problems and the taint of the ITT brouhaha, was joining the Democrats in Miami Beach this summer, San Diego's mayor, police chief and a number of other city notables happily gathered "to toast the convention out of town...
...crime: none. Hoover's bureau set the standard and wrote the rules for effective law enforcement throughout the world. No criticism could detract from his extraordinary achievement-the difficult establishment in a turbulent democracy of a national law-enforcement agency that was honest, expert and free from partisan taint...
...aims in a far different order: "70%?to avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat. 20%?to keep SVN (South Viet Nam) territory from Chinese hands. 10%?to permit the people of SVN to enjoy a better, freer way of life. Also?to emerge from crisis without unacceptable taint from methods used." That was hardly an idealistic statement of U.S. purposes...
...Park. The city, he contends, could not have chosen a better place to quarantine the protesters than the one they chose themselves. Instead, the police stormed in and all the world's TV audience gaped at the resulting riots. The author, indeed, may be guilty of some small taint of Chicago chauvinism when he assigns cosmic significance to that confrontation: "This is what may have determined the election and altered the course of world history-the decision that nobody would be in Lincoln Park after 11 o'clock...