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...having second thoughts these days about the tone of the Republican revolution he is leading. Lately he has been arranging for members of Congress to hear talks by Morris Shechtman, a conservative management consultant and psychotherapist, who advises them on how to advance the Republican agenda without looking heartless. For example, he tells them that since people still think "caring for" others is good, government programs should be described as "caretaking," which sounds paternalistic...
...extent of the abuse in the orphanage and, together with one of the older boys, reports these heinous acts to doctors and authorities. The coldness and brutality of the external world is again shown, this time not in the form of the wintry Newfoundland landscape, but in the heartless bureaucracy of the state. In a painful scene, the efforts of one investigator to expose these moral injustices are blocked by the venal relations between the church and state. Part I of the film may end with the transfer of the guilty priests from the orphanage, but no sense of closure...
...much a recollection of her early life in Southern Rhodesia as a dissection of it. Remote styles of life -- in a colonial outpost at the end of the British regime in Africa, with its hopeless yearnings and longings, and in communist circles of the 1930s, with their blithe and heartless dreams of a brave new world -- come under a moral microscope. How legitimate were people's . experiences? How well have youthful agendas held...
...other choice. The President had already insisted he would not let the boat people into the U.S. proper -- that was politically unacceptable -- but the refugee flow swelled rather than ebbed. Blockade the island? Not really; that would be an act of war. Send the refugees back to Castro? Too heartless, and besides, he would not take them...
...real life, the "box of chocolates" line is seldom enough. And then Gumpism risks devolving quickly into a mindless, heartless conservatism where, if the next guy over is having a rough time of it, it's not because America has failed to grapple with the real and complex problems that face it -- it's probably because he isn't sufficiently upbeat. Or not decent enough. Lacks family values. Reads insufficiently of the Book of Virtues...