Word: gomorrah
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...party popular again. The front-running Texas governor on Tuesday rolled out the second of three major education proposals for a conservative Manhattan crowd ?- and pointedly accused them of straying from the true path. "Too often on social issues my party has painted an image of America slouching toward Gomorrah.... Too often my party has focused on the national economy to the exclusion of all else.... Too often my party has confused the need for limited government with the disdain for government itself," he said. It was the second swipe at his party fellows in as many weeks...
...rarely has a mayor of New York ever amounted to anything outside the five boroughs. Giuliani has alienated approximately 99.9% of the black vote (and the old pols' sneer "blacks don't vote" may not apply anymore). People upstate may admire the man who cleaned up Sodom and Gomorrah, but he will not wear well, I'd guess. With his combed-over death's-head countenance, his bullying instincts and his bizarre lack of self-awareness (he seems to entertain an idea he might be President), Giuliani makes a perfect heavy. If he gets rough with Hillary, it will backfire...
...violence. They are yoked in the politician's sermon like Sodom and Gomorrah or Bonnie and Clyde. Their effect on the young is pernicious, folks: film violence will put a gun in a kid's hand; film sex will grow hair on his palm. But this argument didn't come from anyone who actually goes to movies. Sure, there's film violence, so much that it's numbing. But where...
...them, government interference with private economic behavior remains a bad thing, but regulation of other kinds of private behavior, chiefly meaning sex, is something America needs more of. This is the line of thought represented most famously by Robert Bork in his 1996 best seller, Slouching Towards Gomorrah. Bork warns that America is in the grip of a radical individualism that recognizes no limit to the right of personal gratification, one for which the pleasure principle is the only principle that counts...
...nothing new for movies to expose corruption in American politics. When Mr. Smith went to Washington in 1939, he found Gomorrah. But the President, whether real or fictional, used to get gentler handling. In 1942's Yankee Doodle Dandy, when George M. Cohan, played by James Cagney, meets Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President was played by an actor, seen largely from behind, who sounded so mature and wise that he might as well have been Moses. Two decades later, in Sunrise at Campobello, there is Roosevelt again, this time played by Ralph Bellamy as the last word in ripening decencies...