Word: preachments
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...Carl Reiner's low-keyed direction avoids some obvious errors. Once Denver begins preaching the latest word from on high, the media get interested, and there is an opportunity to make the customary comments on the circus aspects of overnight celebrity. But Reiner makes the point lightly. Heavy preachment is just not his style. The result is a movie that tugs at your arm instead of blasting in your ear. Oh, God! is a nice movie about some nice people who have been made in the image of a very nice Jehovah. - Richard Schickel
...fleeing Norway to live abroad for 27 years. Both men abandoned their native countries physically and yet were able to repossess and be possessed by them psychically and aesthetically. As a parallel to the Greek dictum "Know thyself," both Ibsen and Joyce say "Free thyself." This is no faddish preachment to "do your own thing" but a call to an austere heroism and indomitability that dares to stand alone...
...have made that era so comfortable for vice, apart from the occasional luxury, was the old double standard, the neat if uncharitable belief that some women were just bad, and no real harm in that. But high-minded ministers and pious women soon assaulted this view with the fierce preachment that everyone must be good. By the early 1920s, after two generations of struggle, the reformers had won the official prohibition of commercial sex (and liquor as well...
...money out at a 4% to 5% rate this year. It would probably be willing to increase that rate substantially only if Nixon tried to contain the inflationary effects by adopting an "incomes policy"-some form of wage-price guidelines, or at least direct and vigorous White House preachment against excessive increases. That sensible idea has been steadily gaining among private business leaders and even reluctant Government policymakers. Nixon, however, has consistently rejected the notion as unworkable, almost sinful and certainly inimical to free-market principles...
...Administration does something more to slow wage-and-benefit increases, especially in construction. Increases in major union settlements this year have been averaging 10% annually. The businessmen were not specific about just what action the Administration should take, but they seemed to want more direct and vigorous presidential preachment of wage restraint-especially to Nixon's newfound friends, the hardhats...