Word: monogamist
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...parents instilled a sense of commitment, or lucky to have been blessed with a temperament conducive to marriage, or lucky to have found a well-matched mate. Such humble detachment is a hallmark of liberalism; a good liberal can look at anyone--serial killer or serial monogamist--and see how circumstances of birth and upbringing loaded the dice. A guiding insight of modern liberalism is "There but for the grace...
...presidential selection process is an irrational gamble. It begins in the fumbling courtship of the primaries, with romantic illusions and disillusions, and it makes its gaudy and touching way to consummation a year or so later on the west front of the U.S. Capitol. America is a serial monogamist. The Presidents we get are just about what we can expect or hope for in a role that is supposed to be ideal but in truth demands to be improvised as it goes along...
Paris and Philadelphia were never exactly sister cities, except maybe to Benjamin Franklin. In current movie terms, and when the incendiary issue of AIDS is raised, the towns couldn't be further apart. The hit film Philadelphia treats its subject gingerly, making its hero a saint and a near monogamist. Cyril Collard's French film Savage Nights is defiantly incorrect, even reckless, in its political agenda. Its hero is a fellow who is HIV positive but continues to have unprotected sex. C'est la vie. C'est la mort. No big difference...
Ralph: Nothing at all, my pet. Fresh cant is an important component in America's never-ending quest for novelty. What is high monogamy, by the way? I assume I have been a notably low monogamist all these years...
...Monogamist. The Cheever marriage is a subject of more than ordinary interest to their friends, seeing that the bulk of Cheever's work concerns somehow a vexation or a crisis in relations between husband and wife. The heart of the matter is probably best deduced from the fact that John Cheever, almost alone in the field of modern fiction, is one who celebrates the glories and delights of monogamy...