Word: outlaw
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...even to the point of insisting that his homosexuality was chosen, which Genet found ridiculous. But Sartre certified Genet to a larger readership in postwar France, which was ready, after the upheavals of war and the German Occupation, to inspect, ever so gingerly, the notions of a self-proclaimed outlaw. In a nation still divided between onetime resistance fighters and onetime collaborators, each of them criminals in the other's eyes, the outsider could be anyone...
...current move toward tighter laws has produced the same response. California has some of the strictest in the country; Senator Dianne Feinstein is leading the charge to outlaw assault weapons and semiautomatics. A series of polls last June indicated that 45% of Californians favor a handgun ban. Meanwhile, in the month after the Los Angeles riots, gun sales jumped 45% over the previous year...
...think there is. We're going through a period when gay life and gay literature are being normalized. Of course there's a part of me that feels that outlaw status is preferable, and that there's an excitement that comes from that, and a writer like Dennis Cooper or Gary Indiana have a lot of fun playing the outsider--I think their work really thrives on those conditions. On the other hand, I feel in my own mind there's a clear division between my writing and the way I package it so that I'm never compromsing...
White has structured the biography in two parts; a break occurs at the point when Genet the little-known outlaw became Genet the national treasure (who then had trouble finding anything to write about). White places the beginning of this dry spell in 1949. That was the year the French president, in response to a letter written by Sartre and Cocteau and signed by a slew of intellectuals, issued Genet a pardon for a possible life sentence. The pardon represented an official endorsement by the French government, its reigning man of letters and its most famous philosopher...
...critics of cloning say we should know what we're getting into, with all its Orwellian implications. But if we decide to outlaw cloning, we should understand the implications of that. We would be saying in effect that we prefer to leave genetic destiny to the crap shooting of nature, despite sickle-cell anemia and Tay-Sachs and all the rest, because ultimately we don't trust the market to regulate life itself. And this may be the hardest thing of all to acknowledge: that it isn't so much 21st century technology we fear, as what will happen...