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Not for him the excesses of Gothic supernaturalism or ridiculous stories of ghosts, stick figures, and things that go bump in the night.
Blaming her excesses on a chemical defect allows her to feel good about her seductive inclinations.
In a front-page comment in Milan's Corriere della Sera, columnist Ennio Caretto spoke up for Clinton's presidential record, saying he had corrected the capitalist excesses of Reaganism and that, although he stood accused of betraying the liberal traditions of the Democrats, he had at least--by moving to the center--kept the Right in Congress at bay.
I think that we are slowly beginning to understand the dynamics of why the disruption occurred: the changing role of women; the interaction of that change with "the pill"; the "freedom" that resulted for some men (no longer "responsible" for being a parent); the excesses that accompanied the moral "freedom" that many felt from normative setting institutions such as the church; and many of the other powerful ideas that caught on so very quickly (e.g., that mental illness did not exist) and shaped social policy.
The repetitive outcome, showed, says the paper, that a year of publicity about the excesses of political fund-raising had "failed to change a single senator's mind."