Word: busybodyness
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Lerner is an easy target--an old-school leftist. But his reluctance to blame people for things is archetypally liberal and persists even among moderate liberals who have jumped on the virtue bandwagon. Just as conservatives think they can restore a moral center without making concessions to government activism, liberals...
Sounds great. But it's hard to imagine mounting a successful moral crusade against something without "condemning" it. And once people start condemning divorce, they're going to do the "busybody meddling" that lets them decide which spouse was in the wrong and thus gets the condemnation. Though the result...
The Freemen drama confirms this point, but from another angle. Not content to live and let live in the peaceable Montana way, this band of alleged counterfeiters and tax cheats busied itself placing bounties on neighbors. No wonder the locals were set to raid the place before the FBI stepped...
The G.O.P. is still divided. While making war on Clinton, they will make war on themselves. By and large the new congressional Republicans, led by Gingrich, are of the busybody moralistic sort. But in the statehouses, Republicans like William Weld in Massachusetts and Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin are of the...
Or are these seeming plot discontinuities simply a literal-minded, white way of misreading an Indian story? Maybe, maybe not. At any rate, Erdrich's central theme comes through clearly: reservation life does little to preserve the strengths of Native American culture and is a cruel hothouse for its weaknesses...