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Political correctness is spreading like a virus through the English language, turning every personal trait into an agenda. Recently spotted: Women of Size and Fruitarian (one who refuses to eat anything that requires the killing of plants or animals...
...city that would for decades bear his name, the conflict with communism has overshadowed our century. It dominated our politics, our hopes and fears, our view of the world. It cost us many lives and much money. We learned to live with a permanent enemy, studied his every trait and listened to his endless, dreary polemics (we should not overlook sheer boredom as a factor in communism's fall...
...issue of a candidate's sex life is essentially a phony, except when (as with Gary Hart, who recklessly dared reporters to find him out) it may reveal some troublesome trait of personality. Does anyone think that Franklin Roosevelt was a worse President because he had an affair with Lucy Mercer? Human sexual life is rich and complex, but its interest is more novelistic than moral...
...defeat also intensified a trait that is universally considered Clinton's greatest weakness. Even as a young teenager, he recalls, he often felt compelled to act as a peacemaker, trying to smooth over the violent quarrels at home. As a politician, he wants to be loved by everyone even more than most practitioners of his trade. Says Stephen Smith, a professor of communications at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and onetime Clinton aide: "He would really like to get 100% in an election." Clinton makes such extreme efforts to conciliate opponents that Arkansans jest that the way to get something...
...like his cohorts on AALARM and Peninsula--needs to get to know some gay people. He'd find that not all of them "constantly perceive themselves as the victims of a cruel, oppressive and 'homophobic' world." He'd find that not all of them "believe that their most important trait is their libidinal attraction to members of the same...