Word: jeremiads
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Singing the glory of Arizona's climate, landscape and cowboys, Author Priestley less resembles a coyote than an oldtime prophet. The prophet's rhapsodies change to a jeremiad when he tackles U. S. women, Manhattan, Hollywood, the stricken man-made landscape between, the profligate waste of natural resources, the "chilly dank hell" of moral decay rising from U. S. indifference to its gangsters, its rich men and their political ineptitudes...
Dickens' program was decency. He never dreamed of launching a jeremiad against society as a whole. As a self-respecting member of a respectable community he considered it his duty to call attention to minor maladjustments, trust to public decency to right them. Time has not made obsolete all of Dickens' complaints but it has seen some of them answered. The open sewer that in his day meandered from Kensington Gardens into the Chelsea slums is there no longer; Dotheboys Hall is now an antique caricature; David Copperfields now toil in grammar schools instead of warehouses...
...members." These two more or less general and philosophical ideas are tied down by the able Mr. Leach, and are constrained most convincingly to apply to the needs and trends of the moments. Essentially, the argument involves the Menckenian attack on the "joiner," but it employs this jeremiad in a gentler, more discursive, and more appealing way; it is a bit of comment apt and in good taste...
...hell-and-damnation sermon which left not a member of his congregation unchastised. Afterward he explained to Dan'l that he had contracted to give six sermons, but finding only five at the bookstalls, he necessarily made off before the sixth. Sheer terror inspired the extemporaneous barnyard Jeremiad...
...subject announced by Dr. Straton for his annual Jeremiad at Phillips Brooks House tonight bears no less formidable a title than "The Battle Over the Bible". To those who still keep the flavor of their Gaelic ancestry this may seem a delightful topic for a clergyman's address. But to anyone who has a sincere interest either in the church or in religion it is but one more bugle call in the crazed crusade of notoriety seekers who think the troubles of the church good press agent material. For some time now the attempt on the part of certain...