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"Mugged by Reality" describes how Ellwood fils , who popularized the idea of welfare time limits, saw his idea "hijacked and brutalized" by conservatives.
After all, the 62-year-old has served a grand total of six years in public office (all in the House of Representatives), has not won an election since 1982, was brutalized in her last two campaigns (1984 vice-presidential and 1992 senatorial), and has been tangled in more ethics scandals than any politician except, well, Al D'Amato.
It soon becomes apparent that solving the mystery will require a blend of reason and superstition--a mighty stretch for a young man whose life is pledged to rationalism and whose unconscious roils with visions of his free-spirited mother (Lisa Marie) being brutalized by a "Bible-black tyrant" of a father.
His quibble was that Grass' efforts to come up with an adequate description of the brutality of German society had in many ways brutalized him: "Grass," he writes, "is nearly always too long; nearly always too loud."