Word: silentes
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...Votes will never detain me. This is my city and I love it,” Galluccio told a stunned, silent crowd. “I’m not through with...
...needs. But the issues haven't yet been fully aired, and to the extent that there has been debate, it has occurred largely within the President's party, between the brain trust of the current President Bush and the veterans of his father's Administration. Democrats have been nearly silent on the merits of an invasion, perhaps because there's no point wasting a bullet when, for now, there are plenty of Republicans to do it for them (and perhaps because so many Dems have been in Washington long enough to regret their votes against the first President Bush...
Perhaps the toughest challenge for the former President is to stay silent as commentators traffic in the cliche that the coming confrontation with Saddam is the result of a Bush failing "to finish the job the last time," the son trying to avenge his father's loss of nerve. If anything, Bush is even more convinced these days that Desert Storm was fought properly and ended properly. He points out that the objectives were set, the war fought and won, and to world acclaim America went home, avoiding what could have been an endless and bloody bog. "Finishing...
Sometime last fall, the solemn words and silent vigils faded and the discourse of Sept. 11 began, offering little pause for the tragedy. I was lulled by hollow news reports and the kitschy “9-1-1” metaphor, whose appropriateness troubled me. Its simplicity befit the attacks themselves—large, uncomplicated and unsubtle...
...while my encounter with Sept. 11 was so limited, I found myself bandying about terms exhausted by their own size: words like democracy, capitalism, poverty, Islam and America. Although I took part in the troubling discourse, I grew wary of analysis that clung to these terms, and I grew silent out of fear of saying meaningless things myself...