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...powerful--instead of confessing error and pledging to correct it--are deflecting the blame from themselves to the powerless: to the poor, to the child who just had a child, to the new immigrants," he said. Cuomoalso urged his audience to take action in thecoming election and to leave "the legacy of theBush-Reagan era" behind...
Franzen, who himself lived and worked at Harvard in the seismology lab, is definitely writing in his element. He captures the age of the nineties with its many different faces. What initially seems like a politically correct analysis of the ailments of society turns out to be a subtle joke on political correctness and a lesson for all: The world doesn't fit into the stereotypes so loosely applied these days. More often than not, people and issues reside in a gray area. Full of strong motions and emotions, Franzen's novel will send a few ripples your...
Berger refuses to submit not only to the reductiveness of the commercial reading of art but also to the oversimplification of the "politically correct" reading of art. He is certainly willing to admit sociopolitical truths in his writing. He acknowledges in his essay. "The Erogenous Zone" that "the visual may play a more important role in the sexuality of men than women, but this is difficult to assess because of the extent of sexist traditions in modern image-making...
Mademoiselle Fofo (evil incarnate by Elizabeth Humphrey) is a politically correct nightmare--she justifies Western imperialism in a powerful monologue that concludes with, "A free Algeria is a French Algeria...
Speaking at a Harvard Law School Forum last night, former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III defended federal restrictions on the content of Planned Parenthood consultations while warning of the danger that "politically correct" speech codes pose to First Amendment rights...