Word: preachment
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...secret of Idler's success in this half of their double bill undoubtedly lies to some extent in its choice of a play within its acting means; failure to practice this preachment proves the undoing of the remainder of the program. The Yeats translation of "Oedipus" may be meat for Laurence Olivier and the Old Vie, but it is so far beyond the resources of Radcliffe College and associated institutions as to make any effort at producing it almost worthless...
...success, Publisher Délano could thank his own publishing formula: the satirical laugh gets more results than the solemn warning, the prank is more effective than the preachment. Topaze is never really nice to anybody. But neither is it ever very nasty. Sticking almost strictly to politics, it gigs Chilean politicos with biting irony or refined ridicule, has deftly wrecked many a political career. Two examples...
...First Operation. No longer was there a Duce. But more than 20 years of Fascist power and preachment could not be wiped out in a day. Mussolini, as much as any man, had planted the cancer that had spread beyond his homeland into Germany, Spain, Central Europe and the Balkans. The removal of the Italian dictator was, in a sense, preliminary surgery on the malignance still afflicting mankind...
That course, on the solemn word of Stalin - repeated last week in the most positive terms he has ever used - cannot be a peace without victory. Said he, in a passage which was also an iron preachment to his Allies : "What sort of peace can be in question with the imperialist Fascists who have flooded Europe with blood and covered her with gallows? Is it not clear that only the complete rout of the Hitlerite armies and the unconditional surrender of Hitlerite Germany can bring Europe to peace? Is it not because they feel the approach of the coming catastrophe...
After many months of glib discussion on the question of a Negro-White mixed regiment, it is about time for some official Harvard student action--action to speak louder than all the words the subject has thus far stimulated. Most Harvard students realize that the wide gap between the preachment and the practise of democracy in the Army must be bridged; a foundation of that bridge lies in the mixed regiment, which is, in turn, a foundation itself for future liberalism and better racial attitudes in a post-war United States. The steps of construction must be taken...