Word: pulpiteering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ideal: not for the sake of the animals or my health, but for the environment. Meat, I would’ve been quick to tell you, is a bigoted inefficiency to which only those of us in flabby America are privy; Annenberg was my church and fake meat my pulpit. (After reading Michael Pollan’s book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and super-saturating myself with soy, I’ve changed my tune. As with many things, I’ve found that what is “sustainable?...
...contrast to the leadership style of Summers, who often spoke freely on political topics of the day, Faust said that she would use the presidency as a pulpit to influence higher education. The path Harvard sets “helps to define the character and meaning of the universities of the 21st century,” she said...
...reporter asks how she will use the pulpit of the presidency and she answers that she will try to talk about and propose solutions to improve the problems of higher education...
...Harvard in the 21st century: Harvard stands out among other major American universities because it is the oldest, wealthiest, and most decentralized. I once remarked to a new Harvard president, “You have only two powers—the ability to select deans, and the bully pulpit. And you have the bully pulpit because Harvard may or may not be the greatest university in America, but it is certainly the greatest in the world. And the world will be watching what...
...That Warren should lend him a lectern has infuriated the pro-life activists and general hard-liners on the religious right. Conservative talk radio host Kevin McCullough wrote on his blog, "Why would Warren marry the moral equivalency of his pulpit - a sacred piece of honor in evangelical traditions - to the inhumane, sick and sinister evil that Obama has worked for as a legislator?" An open letter signed by Phyllis Schlafly, head of the conservative Eagle Forum, and 17 other less prominent figures, most from anti-abortion groups, contended "If Senator Obama cannot defend the most helpless citizens...