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...greatest surprise of the election year. These candidates tapped a yearning for moral rebirth that Reagan was supposed to have brought to Americans already. Yet Reagan's rhetoric, unable to re-create the America he invoked, made that America's absence more haunting for those who saw a Sodom around them instead of the Eden they had been promised. Pat Robertson and Jesse Jackson both deplored the loss of family values, the irresponsible sexuality of the young -- what Jackson called "babies making babies." They said that drugs were hollowing out the country's moral center. They called for greater discipline...
When I heard whispers about the Zone's true reason for being, I pictured it as a huge, modernized Sodom and Gomorah, complete with legions of harlots and scores of sinners...
...first installment, "Mojave," arched some eyebrows. The second, "La Cote Basque," popped eyes. The author who charmed readers with Breakfast at Tiffany's was now lunching in Sodom, where the specialties included lightly fictionalized stories of lust, greed, envy and homicide. Unfortunately, many of the author's pals, regulars at the restaurant that gave the story its name, recognized themselves. Capote suddenly found himself alone by the telephone; the once coveted party guest and confidant was now treated like a polluter of punch bowls. "What did they expect?" he asked at the time. "I'm a writer...
...Koop poured out his prolife passions in two books, five educational films and a nationwide lecture tour. His style of argument was anything but dispassionate: in one film segment, Koop looked over a sea of naked dolls symbolizing aborted fetuses, and proclaimed, "I am standing on the site of Sodom, the place of evil and death...
...Sunday before we moved to Sodom, I went with my daughter to church, a sweet little Methodist church in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Except to mark an occasional death I have not been much of a churchgoer lately, but on this Sabbath my girl Whitney was to sing solo, and I felt drawn to a front pew, aisle. I am happy to report she did herself and her old man proud, and I carried the memory of her lovely performance with me to the city (she stayed on to see to her schooling) as well as something the preacher said...