But Mr O'Malley's proposal has even drawn praise from the New York Times editorial board, the institutional voice of a certain subset of America's centre-left.
With his slow, western drawl, and his love of the open road and the empty badlands way out west, he's always seemed like the authentic voice of a certain sort of American manhood; telling stories – of suffocating families and wretched lovers – from the forgotten, inbetween places of the American outback.
The majority of the works illustrated in The Writing on the Wall express some kind of group sentiment; whether it's a plea for social housing or an affinity for the IRA, the graffiti usually let the combined voices of a certain section of society be heard.
The majority of the works illustrated in The Writing On the Wall express some kind of group sentiment; whether its a plea for social housing or an affinity for the IRA, the graffiti usually let the combined voices of a certain section of society be heard.
"The one who put the nation's spirit into words and songs, the one who tries to find the meaning of what's happening around, the one who becomes the voice of the generation and of a certain age – or, in BG's case, a handful of them".
The Voice, as marginalized and irrelevant as it has become, really was the voice of the city and of a certain kind of New Yorker.
But I suppose when you've declared yourself to be the voice of the voiceless, there's a certain amount of keeping up appearances involved.
Apart from that, however, I don't much seek out books about Brooklyn; I'm more turned on by what Brooklyn grain I detect (or imagine I detect) in the voices of certain Brooklyn-born writers who leave the place largely unexplored as a subject: Robert Stone, Gilbert Sorrentino, Maurice Sendak.
So perhaps it is fitting that we should conjure a pointedly optimistic way of thinking just to dispel the voices of certain doom and jaded irony.
While it plays, and off-air, Mairead detects a certain over-enthusiasm in the voice of her DJ partner.
