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You can follow its regular eruptions through his career, from Buchanan's 1972 memo to Richard Nixon suggesting that he link a primary opponent with "New York Jewish money," to the now infamous 1977 column I excavated some years ago from the archives of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in which Buchanan offers qualified praise for Hitler, to dozens of subsequent utterances that mitigate fascism and cast aspersions on nonwhites.
Brocade or chiffon dresses covered in who-knows-what utterances in beautiful Chinese and Arabic script, or dresses wittily made of paper printed with the New York Yellow Pages, all express a joyful relish in the decay of the written word, a forthright pleasure in the way its meaning has been draining away.
With her belief that unwanted sexual advances and utterances (and even, in some cases, wanted ones) degrade women so profoundly that it's worth limiting free speech to prevent them, MacKinnon laid the intellectual groundwork for today's sexual harassment laws.
Although it might be seen as commendable to make the interpretation of pronunciation symbols as easy as possible for the laziest users, I have little sympathy for the policy: in most cases, those who are too lazy to learn even the rudimentary respelling systems used in popular dictionaries (like the various college and desk dictionaries) are also too lazy to look up the pronunciation of a name or word, as is evidenced daily in the utterances of newscasters and announcers.
We who are in control of the media and therefore aware of the context in which unclear English is used, know what's going on (and therefore the meanings of the utterances used to describe it), while the vulgar (to use Berkeley's delightful expression for those with a shaky grasp of vocabulary and syntax who are therefore ill equipped to understand some particular bit of newspeak) are led to believe, when they fail to fathom what's going on, that the failure in comprehension is entirely their fault.
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