Word: pulpiteering
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...true that Richard feels--rightly in my opinion--that politics has no place in a classroom; he has no patience with teachers who use their classroom as a pulpit. If you think, as the articles suggest, that this restricts "alternative" agendas in the classroom, you are probably correct. But your editorial goes much further. In effect you call Richard Marius a racist. Your report implies it--your editorial virtually comes out and says it. Richard makes "no serious effort to recruit teachers of color." This is just not true...
Brooks does not know whether he will be a teacher or have a pulpit when he graduates two years from now. But either way, he hopes to remain in Cambridge...
...what does this have to do with President Clinton? Well, first of all, he is the president, and with that title comes a handy bully pulpit (as Ross Perot would say). Second, being a Democrat, he has more ideological clout with Hollywood than his predecessors. Third, his ties to show business are strong, as his Hollywood-choreographed inauguration demonstrated...
...cartoon--yes, cartoons--of April 9, 1993. While I normally appreciate Conley's daring lampoons of everything from Harvard life to the Clinton Administration, I found his personal attack on "Natasha" to be a grave misuse of your newspaper. Even the cartoon page should not serve as a pulpit for the sort of childish vituperation perpetrated by Conley...
...baby boomers can relate to us. We've been through our / own recovery, and we're not on a pedestal." If a spiritual search is going on, it is for an inner child. In a room remarkably empty of religious paraphernalia, on a riser, behind the pulpit, an enormous teddy bear sits in the background. "The twentysomethings," observes Matoin, "are searching achievers. Working hard. 'I've got a condo, Rollerblades, but something's missing.' They've got prosperity but not peace of mind. The person in his 40s or 50s, it's the life experience. Busted relationships. They're alcoholics...