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...still be the land of the free, but increasingly it is also the home of dedicated neo-Puritans, humorlessly imposing on others arbitrary (meaning their own) standards of behavior, health and thought. To a number of concerned observers, the busybodies -- conformity seekers, legal nitpickers and politically correct thought police -- seem to have lost sight of a bedrock American virtue: tolerance, allowing others, in the name of freedom, to do things one disagrees with or does not like, provided they do no outright harm to others...
Then there are the animal-rights zealots, who sometimes seem to have greater respect for fauna than for their fellow humans. In some bastions of correct thinking, a woman wearing an ermine coat stands more chance of being attacked by an egg-throwing lover of stoats than by a mugger. (The fur-wearing woman's offense would be compounded if she were eating a veal sandwich or carrying a non-biodegradable Styrofoam container of coffee...
...fasting," sings the rafter-raising hymn Bankin' on Jesus and speaks in tongues. The contestants also hawk the new Glamouresse products: Lip Snack, a beauty and food aid ("the prettiest protein you'll ever eat"); Smooth-as-Marble Facial Spackle, for the large- pored gal; and the environmentally correct Hair Aware with Air Repair ("in a virtually asbestos-free canister"). But the goal of these living Barbie dolls is higher than mere commerce. They are embodying a woman's unique role: to look beautiful "so the world is a better place and men have something nice to look at while...
...annoyance in the other. During the gulf war in February, when Bush was delivering a tough message over the phone, his interpreter accurately rendered the words into Russian but in a harsh and reproving tone. Afterward Gorbachev asked an English-speaking aide who was listening in whether he was correct in detecting that Bush's "warmth" had got lost in translation. "Yes," the aide assured him. "It was friendlier in the original." Gorbachev was much relieved...
...Maitre delivered his commencement speech at Boston University's College of Communication in May, he chose as his theme the decline of morality in American culture. He cited several sexually explicit and violent scenes in the movie The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover and said, "The politically correct, properly liberal notion is -- liberal in the sense of having no standards -- is that we should never dig deeper to consider whether a given work is true...