Naked
O'Gorman, Ned
Naked I have this to say about the unclothing of the clothed: becoming naked is a turnabout of what is ordered and decreed: we are told to hide the flesh, to hitch it to a stitch or hem:...
...The columns of several highly respected Republican pundits read like James Baker's press statements...
...There was something frightening about the bullyboy tactics of the imported demonstrators and the consistent liberties that Baker and his surrogates took with the truth...
...These tactics are very effective, but they also damage the fabric of our system...
...Ned O'Gorman 14 (Continued from page 4) passions to win political support...
...He noted that it was anger that finally brought the party control of the presidency and both houses of Congress...
...On the other hand, they uniformly defended the conduct of the congressional staffers and others sent to Florida to stop the recount...
...Most alarming, their treatment of Jesse Jackson's orderly protests seemed to suggest that any time an African American speaks forcefully about civil rights concerns to other blacks a riot has taken place...
...Naked I have this to say about the unclothing of the clothed: becoming naked is a turnabout of what is ordered and decreed: we are told to hide the flesh, to hitch it to a stitch or hem: lacking belt, buttons, trousers and cap the luminous layer of skin would increase in splendido and coruscation and be itself a vestment and a peak of voluptuousness and the elephantine seeds of desire would grow up round like vines of flame and the coiled daysprings about the heart would spin from the rib cage and be imperial and unappeased aroused beyond the shipwreck's flat clarion bells...
...The GOP chairperson of one Florida county told the New York Times that "our lives" were at stake...
...don swift Erie, Pa...
...The politics of resentment created something almost akin to what Adorno called the authoritarian personality...
...After Bush became president-elect, Rush Limbaugh angrily dismissed suggestions that Republicans should turn away from an "orgy of hate" to seek conciliation and pursue moderation...
...In cultural warfare, the stakes seem that great and call for extraordinary exertion that sometimes crosses the bounds of civility and lawfulness...
...This mindset seemed to legitimize in29 (Continued from page 29) timidating black voters, doctoring absentee ballot applications in Seneca and Martin Counties, the reckless purging of voter rolls to reduce the number of black voters, and the stonewalling of the Florida secretary of state's office...
Vol. 128 • January 2001 • No. 2
