Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Clinton began to realize from polling data that today's voters are less interested in economics than in such child-rearing and values issues as school uniforms and deadbeat dads, an aide explained, "he ran into Bennett already standing on top of them." The President has approvingly cited Bennett...
It would certainly be nice if we could restore monogamous marriage without stiff moral sanction. But on this point the history of the world is not encouraging. It is hard to find a society even roughly comparable to ours that has found a painless formula for keeping divorce rare. Japan...
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 fat lady has sung. The most spectacularly miserable marriage of the century is officially over. Prince Charles and DIANA are now free to hit the singles bars. Oddly enough, they didn't. On the day the divorce was finalized, Diana went to a party at the English National Ballet...