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This kind of picture has one of two thrusts: It either sides with the suffocated housewife who, like Ibsen's Nora, strives to break free of a repressive patriarchal hold, or it demonizes a culture that tempts men and women to put their own gratification before their responsibilities as parents.
globasm Compulsive international expansion to achieve instant gratification.
Mandela may lack the rousing American oratory of a President Kennedy, Martin Luther King or Jesse Jackson, but his manner and his unflappable dignity show him as a disciplined, persistent leader who is willing to sacrifice short-term gratification for long-term achievement, the kind of moral leadership we need everywhere.
A few years ago, I was driving around New York with Paul Simon for a BBC-TV film, when the car went over a pothole and the radio jumped from some tasteful doo-wop on WCBS-FM to a rap station: "This," said Simon sadly, "is the perfect soundtrack for an age of instant gratification."
Congress, where "the idea of bombing Iraq has really fallen into trouble," is equally confused, says Fred Barnes ( The McLaughlin Group ). Will explains the appeal of bombing: It provides "gratification without commitment."