Word: jeremiad
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...video clips and a ceaseless stream of “Flavor of Love” spin-offs have supplanted the simpler entertainments in the battle for the attentions of America’s youth, it has become very easy—too easy—to issue a woeful jeremiad about our culture’s inexorable backslide. It seems clear that active measures to adapt literacy education to the changing tastes of our youth would prove altogether more effectual than the noisy resignation to predicted intellectual decline that others have been so quick to express. As such, the story...
...political, even partisan stance” of urging President Faust to declaim against DADT at the commissioning ceremony. The military’s discriminatory policy, to Goldenberg, clearly overrides any respect for prudence or decorum. Evidently, the slightest support of ROTC without an accompanying jeremiad against DADT signifies complicity in oppression...
...tomorrow.” The coup de grâce was saved, however, for the final paragraph: the Court’s “ill-considered decision will have the worst possible repercussions for American women.” Throughout The Crimson’s 400-odd-word jeremiad, not even one clause deigned to mount a practical defense of the procedure the editorial ostensibly intended to defend...
That's one explanation for last month's jeremiad by Peter Bart, editor of the trade paper Variety, against movie reviewers. He couldn't understand why so many critics lambasted hits like 300, Wild Hogs and Norbit. "The situation underscores yet again the disconnect between the cinematic appetites of critics vs. those of the popcorn crowd," Bart wrote. "If the established media want to stay relevant, should their critics make a passing attempt to tune in to pop culture?" He suggested we take "a sabbatical until September," when Hollywood starts releasing artsy films in the pre-Oscar blitz...
...Ebert's tantalizing phrase) is among the titanic Hollywood battles itemized in Kirby Dick's very entertaining documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated. The movie is a broadside against the MPAA on behalf of indie filmmakers, and is sponsored by the Independent Film Channel. It's a jazzy jeremiad that dances around the whole dilemma of ratings. Should children be kept from seeing adult films? Can a child's movie maturity be determined by his or her chronological age? If there's a ratings system - by any other name, a censorship board - should it be run by the government...