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Certainly, "Naked" is a perfectly good English word of Anglo-Saxon derivation. It does have a somewhat bawdy connotation but is quite mild when compare to language such as found in Chaucer, Rebelais, Swift and the scores of other literary giants, ancient and modern, studied at Harvard...
...plan on a long life. As a boy, he toyed with suicide, employing, among other means, a dull knife, hay-fever drops and a mild overdose of aspirin; he also survived several sessions of Russian roulette. Grown older, evidently in spite of himself, he left his native England as often as possible to court danger and disease, wherever and whenever they might prove most virulent: Africa, Mexico, Indochina, Cuba, Haiti, Central America. None of these places killed him; instead they furnished material for many of his more than 50 books, including novels, short story collections, travel writings, plays, essays, autobiography...
...profession, sensed how deeply withdrawn he was. "I called him Bob and treated him like a pal," says Mueller, "trying to coax him out of his shell." Once Robert invited him out to the farm to practice firing his .45-cal. Magnum. "I was struck by this mild young man's fascination with guns," recalls the chiropractor. "He kept shooting at trees as if they were people. That should have been a warning...
They silence students, deans and professors. Ask youself about the smear job done to Dean Jewett's relatively mild observation about date rape. Can anyone wonder why Professor Stephan Thernstrom and Professor Bernard Bailyn don't teach the "Peopling of America" any more...
Washington's public reaction to the King's outburst was mild at first. President Bush said the Jordanians had "made a mistake to align themselves so closely with Saddam," but added that he had tried to understand the pressures on King Hussein. By the next day it was clear that the President, who last Christmas sent King Hussein a card bearing the inscription "I'm still your friend!," had lost his patience. The Jordanians, Bush said, "seem to have moved over, way over into Saddam Hussein's camp." That, he said, "complicates" U.S.-Jordanian relations. The White House announced that...