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Gore Vidal（1925--2012）
Prolific American novelist, playright and essayist;
one of the greatest stylists of contemporary American prose.
also known for his patrician manner, Transatlantic accent, and witty aphorisms. Most widely regarded social novel: Myra Breckinridge;
Best known historical novels included Julian, Burr, and Lincoln.
His third novel: The City and the Pillar (1948), one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality.
His screenwriting credits: the epic historical drama Ben-Hur (1959), won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Clarence Page (1947- )Pulitzer Prize winner; columnist and member of the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune since 1984. Twice a week, his addresses, with passion and style, the social, economic and political issues affecting people in the United States such as crime, education, hoiusing, hunger and bigotry.
born in Dayton, Ohio and attended Middletown High School in Middletown where he worked on the school's bi-weekly newspaper.
After graduating in 1965, he worked freelance as a writer and photographer for The Middletown Journal and The Cincinnati Enquirer, while he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from Ohio University.[2]
Charles Krauthammer (1950- )：Pulitzer Prize winner; prominent political commentator and syndicated columnist with columns in The Washington Post, Time magazine, and other publications. In 2006, he was named America’s most influential columnist by the Financial Times.
born on March 13, 1950, in New York City and raised in Montreal, Quebec, where he attended McGill University and obtained an honors degree in political science and economics in 1970.
saying "Krauthammer has influenced US foreign policy for more than two decades. He coined and developed 'The Reagan Doctrine' in 1985 and he defined the US role as sole superpower in his essay 'The Unipolar Moment,' published shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
1. Drugs Main idea:
The drug problem in United States can not be solved because people’s pursuits of making more money. Prohibition of drug does not work, which will only make the situation even worse.
Supporting argument:
United States was the creation of men who believed that each man has the right to do what he wants ……(3)
This psychological insight is……always denied our governors (4)
During the years alcohol was forbidden to the people by a Congress→ the greatest crime wave in the country’s history (6)
Last year when the supply of marijuana was slightly reduced by the Feds→ deaths increased dramatically (9)
Structure of development:
Give a hypothesis to stop drug addiction(1-2)→Point out that prohibition makes people want drugs all the more(3-5)→Give examples of the prohibition of alcohol and the reduction of marijuana(6-9)→Conclusion(10)
2. The Trouble with Legalizing Drugs
Main idea: Legalization sounds too good to be true and as long as demand remains, the traffic will find ways to get through. Demand will remain as long as the social ills remain.
Supporting argument:
Schmoke thought, prohibition increases crime without eliminating addiction. (14)
“Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse……”wrote Milton Friedman (15) “Prof. James Q. Wilson tells that……the number of addicts increased forty-fold……“（18）
Structure of development:
Point out that legalization sounds too good to be true(11-12)→Argue by quoting, keep drugs illegal can reduce its use (13-17)→ Argue on Bennett’s theory and make a conclusion (18-20)
3. Legalize? No. Deglamorize Main idea:
Like tobacco, drugs should be deglamorized instead of being legalized. The only way to reduce consumption is to reverse a cultural impression.
Supporting arguments:
When I was a kid, the most glamorous image was Bogie with a cigarette dangling from his lips. Tobacco advertising is banned on TV……（28）
The decline in tobacco usage was 40 percent in 1964, and today, 30 percent. (29)
Nancy Reagan’s Just Say No to drugs campaign→ recognized the only nonrepressive way to go after drugs……（30）
Structure of development:
Point out that legalization does not solve the problem (21-23) →Compare with alcohol (24-25)→three effects would increase consumption(26)→analyse that the only way is to reverse a cultural impression (27-31)→four solutions (32)
How they disagree with each other?
Vidal suggests the government to make all drugs available and sell them at cost. Label each drug with a precise description of what effect the drug will have on the taker. Page argues the way to
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2023-04-16
