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...capsule review of Purple America by Rick Moody (author of The Ice Storm, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie) would seem to condemn it as an example of this type of writing: Billie Raitcliffe has a thing for men who work with radioactivity (personality tic) and a degenerative muscular disease; her husband just left her and she asks her son to euthanize her when her illness gets too severe (societal problem; two, if you count the separation). Hex, her son, has to decide whether he can shoulder the burden of caring for his mother alone (societal problem) even...
...other writer of Rick Moody's generation would have used a plot like this as an excuse to hold a pity party--indeed, probably would have created the plot expressly to condemn the previous generation for messing up the world, etc., etc. But Moody makes no moral judgments on the sad state of affairs in Connecticut that has hemmed Hex and Billie and Billie's husband Lou Sloane into standard suburban lives; instead, he analyzes and describes and unravels character and action and landscape in scintillating prose. He is a young author who chooses to write about rather sordid, dull...
...East peace process in moral terms, no intelligent observer would choose the morality of a state that violated the human rights of its own citizens. It is this morality that justifies the murder of civilian Israelis, an act which anyone who believes in the sanctity of human life must condemn. HAROLD E. LUBER...
Despite common parlance today, prejudice is not restricted to the ignorant or dim-witted. Prejudice pervades the human condition and we all have our prejudices. Some have more idiosyncratic and invidious prejudices, for which we rightly condemn them. But as we condemn the most noxious forms of prejudice, we blithely overlook subtler forms of prejudice for the very reason that we all share them. And we all share them because they do in fact appear as conventional wisdom. The prescient Tocqueville called it the omnipotence of the majority...
America, don't beat up on yourself over the killings in Jonesboro. In Canada we also have violence and murder committed by schoolchildren. The U.S. has almost 50 million school-age youngsters. The acts of two or three should not be used to condemn the entire country. MICHAEL SILVERBROOKE North Vancouver...