Word: preach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1870s, before modern marketing and packaging had been developed, Ralph Waldo Emerson prophesied: "If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door...
...much money is taken in every year by the narcotics pushers, makers of pornographic movies and writers of material that debases the human being? And you have the audacity to criticize the radio and TV evangelists for the money they have collected to preach God's holy word...
Harberger has never questioned his faith in the market economy as the solution to the problems of poor countries. "I preach an approach I call good economics," he says. His approach measures success with the ledger of an accountant; questions of who gets what have no place in the economist's calculus...
Clearly unwilling to preach about "moral dignity," Vonnegut instead spoke in parables and metaphors. Channing lived in America's close-knit "folk society," Vonnegut said. It was an "American Atlantis, swamped by the waves of immigrants...
...holds your attention and forces you to become emotionally involved. It was not an easy movie to write or direct, but Robert Benton has succeeded in treading the fine line between washed-out soap opera and documentary. The result is a rare treat--a film that does not preach but makes its point, a film that makes you feel but does not jerk, a film that does not pretend to have all the answers...