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Bill Bradley, George W. Bush, and Elizabeth Dole are wooing voters with charm, biography, anodyne rhetoric, and "calculated haze."
In theory, John Hope Franklin is the perfect chair for an anodyne exercise in racial reconciliation.
The speech writers are busily at work spinning out their anodyne alliterations, their balanced bromides, their cautious clarion calls.
In so doing, he shows us that a great deal of sadism, animality, and outright lust can lurk behind people's anodyne professions that they just want to "uphold the law" or "maintain a level of decency."
Because this is the problem: In the face of our postwar, retail, mobile, corporate culture, democracy is not only a seemingly ineffectual anodyne to social blight; it becomes a part of the problem.