Word: jacksonism
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...thought of a morning about 25 years ago in a corridor of Washington's Willard Hotel. I had an appointment to interview Jackson in his hotel room at eleven. As I walked down the hotel corridor, I saw Jackson walking in front of me, and I called out, "Reverend Jackson...
...strange moment on "Meet the Press": Off-camera in the studio, a lightbulb apparently exploded -a loud, sharp noise. Jesse Jackson thought it was a gunshot. For an instant he looked wildly to his right, eyes questioning...
...Jackson relaxed...
...became a student of Jackson, especially of his oratorical style, his cadences. I heard him speak in every setting from ghetto high schools in Washington and New York ("My mind is a pearl/ I can do anything/ In the worl'.") to sleek 46th-floor dining rooms of the TIME-LIFE Building, where he met with editors and writers preparing cover stories about him. Jackson has many speaking voices - from hard street (almost incomprehensible to the white ear) to a high, southern-preacherly eloquence (school of Martin Luther King Jr.) to the most sophisticated corporate mellowspeak, as smooth and fancy...
...Lately Jackson chooses to speak in a rude staccato with the consonants rubbed off, sometimes a little hard to understand ("Stay out duh Bushes! Stay out duh Bushes!" he hilariously warned the Democratic convention) - an emphasis that he adopts for the sake of a downmarket authenticity that he calculates will give him most leverage in his dealings with white political power...