Word: jeremiads
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...John Tillinger's intimate, immaculate staging, The Last Yankee plays like a last contrition -- with a bit of sermon thrown in. Miller has been in the pulpit so long that he can't completely shake the preacher's jeremiad cadences from his voice, even when he wants to whisper. When Leroy says, "Maybe I am a failure, but in my opinion no more than the rest of this country," his private anguish is being overrun by Miller's political agenda, like a radio sonata interrupted by a campaign commercial...
...past quarter-century millennial visions have grown darker, lurid as a Brueghel. The best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s in America was Christian author Hal Lindsey's jeremiad, The Late Great Planet Earth. Among many other things, Lindsey predicted that the Soviet Union would invade Israel and that, after millions of the righteous were gathered up in the eschatological event known as the "rapture," Jesus would descend from the heavens to preside over the real New World Order. In his 1974 book Armageddon, Oil and the Middle East Crisis, John F. Walvoord projected his vision: "Destruction on a formerly...
...listeners have, and they laugh appreciatively. Yet many Democrats seem more comfortable with Harkin's familiar boilerplate than with Brown's jeremiad. "Whew! What a free market of ideas. And I sure respect the way he gets on that freight train of passion," said Sam Barone, executive director of Ohio's Democratic Party organization, after a Brown speech in Chicago. "But I'll tell you this, if he should dispatch a bunch of those pony- tailed Californians with earrings into Ohio or Indiana as volunteers, then he can just forget...
...inaugural address, Havel's talk was an extraordinary jeremiad -- eloquent, gentle, but unstinting in its criticism. It was the last kind of speech that might have been expected from a man who had just won a war decades long and whose name had been cried out like a victory chant in the same Wenceslas Square the night before. Havel noted the achievement of 1989 by paraphrasing 17th century theologian Comenius -- "Your government, my people, has returned to you" -- but his speech was the antithesis of triumphalism. Instead, it was a bracing recitation of urgent needs, an inventory of the damage...
...Cruise has his best shot in a sprawling, squalling film on Hollywood's favorite serious subject. Born on the Fourth of July, directed by Oliver Stone (Platoon), is a Viet Nam melodrama pitched at high decibel level for 2 hr. 23 min. The movie is a jeremiad not just against the war but also against the cultural authorities who encouraged it from the pulpit, the blackboard, the dining-room table and the movie screen. This is an anti-Hollywood movie too; everything that was terrific in, say, Top Gun -- the war, the sex, the male bonding -- is found...