Word: preachment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into city halls and statehouses, taints facets of show business and labor relations, and periodically sheds blood. It has a multiplier effect on crime; narcotics, a mob monopoly, drives the addicted to burglaries and other felonies to finance the habit. Cosa Nostra's ability to flout the law makes preachment of law and order a joke to those who see organized crime in action most often: the urban poor and the black. Says Milton Rector, director of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency: "Almost every bit of crime we study has some link to organized crime...
...entire cast has been with the play since the beginning-including a four-month run in Los Angeles' embattled Watts district. Their three years together have paid off in the fine, comic ensemble playing that all but counteracts the soporific effect of big Buck White and his preachment...
...Control, which, with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, recently co-sponsored seven regional conferences, discovered that the difficulty most often cited by students and educators alike was lack of communication: today's teenagers, rebelling against adult authority, turn off at the first hint of moralizing or preachment...
...colors and dumping refuse over the side. Such cogency is missing from the standard high-megaton finale. Obviously made without the full cooperation of any specific navy, Incident emerges at last as its own worst enemy-a timely sea saga that cannot resist turning a treat into a preachment...
Sadist of Clowns. Miller's books alternate between pornography and preachment, sex and soda water; every bed sooner or later seems exposed to an icy draft from The Air-Conditioned Nightmare. He is a comical windbag, but unexpectedly the reader has the opportunity to see which part is comedy and which is windbag. The emphasis shifts away from sex in Plexus and Nexus. Without his fake phallus, Miller is a clown-the sadist of clowns...