Word: confusional
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There is confusion over the practical effects the law will have. Larry Foster, an attorney for the Clayton County school system, foresees few problems: "All this bill does is say to the religious folks, 'Hey, you can come in too.' " But Ralph Goldberg, a cooperating attorney with the...
Mailer has produced a gripping and fully-realized depiction of the social tensions created by murder and larger conflicts. But the author has not ended anything; he has simply let his characters drop from exhaustion. Though the crimes are clarified, the real mystery of why his characters are unhappy--as...
The party's collective confusion is on display from the campaign stump to Congress. Mondale preaches compassion, Hart calls for "new ideas." Old liberals like Tip O'Neill support massive jobs bills, while young reformers vote to freeze spending on all domestic programs. Southern Democrats seek to contain...
Harvey endlessly wrestles with that problem, but he has retreated so far from the world that he no longer understands the sources and sorrows of the human condition. He is soon reminded. One morning the police arrive with unsettling news. Harvey originally abandoned his wife Effie because she was not...
Finally, perhaps the deepest cause of moral confusion is the state of language itself, language that has been bleached of its moral distinctions, turned neutral, value-free, "nonjudgmental." When that happens, moral discourse becomes difficult, moral distinctions impossible and moral debate incomprehensible. If abortion is simply "termination of pregnancy," the...