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...natural. In a climate such as ours, questioning something like equality is tantamount to a felony. Never mind that the greatest minds in human history have struggled with such concepts. Racial equality? Gender equality? Multiculturalism? Animal rights? Today, the debate is over. We have found Truth. And if you dare to question the collective democratic spirit, you shall be struck down like the intellectually inferior dog that you are. In fact, I should expect to be crucified for even making these observations. Tolerance apparently only extends to accepted wisdom. In the pursuit of freedom for all, we are wandering haphazardly...
...quite disturbing how willingly the denizens of Park Avenue joined the faraway battle with their checkbooks. Sharon launched into the familiar indictment: You American Jews are not on the front line, so don't dare second-guess us. Perhaps it is not the business of American Jews--who, after all, are not on the front line--to fund obstructionists who aim to block the popularly elected government of a sovereign state...
...unashamedly proud of everything about Chartwell . . ." Alsop said years later. "But he was proudest of all of his goldfish pond . . . 'See that one there,' he would say . . . 'the one that looks rather like Clement Attlee? I paid only 10 shillings for that one -- worth fully two pounds now, I dare say.' " Alsop was reminded of his visit to Chartwell when he toured the L.B.J. Ranch at high speed in a limousine with Johnson himself at the wheel. Reaching a group of cattle, Johnson would "behave precisely like Churchill with his goldfish -- pointing out each animal in turn, occasionally comparing...
That's fine, reckless advice for any person, any writer. The surprise is that McNally, 54, took his own dare. He is, after all, best known for the zippy romance Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (which became a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino) and the funny-poignant Lips Together, Teeth Apart (which is now playing in Los Angeles). Among his dozens of plays are daft farces (The Ritz, Bad Habits), an Emmy-winning TV play (Andre's Mother) and a clever sitcom (Mama Malone), but nothing so eloquent, capacious and true as A Perfect Ganesh...
...victimization. In a May commencement speech about the new intolerance, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas complained that "a new brand of stereotypes and ad hominem assaults are surfacing across the nation's college campuses, in the national media, in Hollywood and among the . . . 'cultural elite' " aimed at "those who dare to disagree with the latest ideological fad." If anyone has ever actually prevented Thomas from expressing his views, I would like to hear of it. Vigorous dissent is not censorship...