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...Strangely, it is this sort of thinking—that is, putting the pursuit of money ahead of almost everything??that is related to why we’re witnessing this current crisis. Though the blame certainly does not rest completely in their hands, it was the greed of many members of Wall Street that contributed to the destabilizing of the market. This veneration of dollars is not sustainable. And when a crash such as this one occurs, many are left feeling very empty. As one friend of mine observed, a strange sense of isolation...
...kind of our past. It thrives on silence and political correctness—on the avoidance of the race issue at all costs, and on our willingness to pretend it is something else entirely. And it festers, for that reason, among the middle-class voters who have lost almost everything??jobs, savings, homes—and who are loathe to gamble on a candidate whose entire campaign is based on change, when change is destroying them.Hillary understood Levittown. She pandered to it with duck-shooting faux Rust Belt authenticity, but also with tangible proposals for health care, energy...
...child-like tone and the adult matters he confronts effectively gives the reader the impression of Pat’s mental instability. The simplicity of expression reflects an equal simplicity of character. Pat’s dominating outlook on life is that there is a silver lining to everything??a cliché remark that recurs throughout the entire novel. He expects his life to turn out like a movie with a happy ending and is enraged by anything that threatens to prevent this from happening. The happy ending that Pat anticipates is his reuniting with his ex-wife...
...mother of a Corporal Matthew Stanley for cheap sympathy points since August of last year. I should have seen it coming: At just the right moment and in a lowered voice, he intoned, “She said, ‘Senator McCain, I want you to do everything??promise me one thing, that you’ll do everything in your power to make sure that my son’s death was not in vain...
...thoughts as her way of willing him back to her. That craziness also creates some of the most enjoyable parts of the book, as when Olive decides to teach a lesson to her daughter-in-law—whom she describes as “a woman who knows everything??—by making her believe she is insane. Olive decides to steal articles of clothing from her daughter-in-law knowing that “there will be moments now when Susan will doubt herself, calling out Christopher, are you sure you haven?...