Word: pulpiteering
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...think for Harvard to be speaking out against a practice or making a statment is just a great pulpit," said Kay, a Brookline resident and retired Goldman Sachs executive. "I don't think [the Overseers] job is to run things, but to be available and to work on issues and to use influence on occasion, not to push the school, but to maybe to nudge them in the right direction...
...that Bill Clinton will find a way to employ his wife without igniting a protest. After all, a new generation of leaders brings with it new assumptions about the roles that women -- even wives -- should play. Hillary may eventually conclude that she can use the First Lady's bully pulpit however she wishes, and then let her accomplishments carry...
...knows that Teddy Roosevelt was right about the bully pulpit: "Some look at the evidence and believe that if their conclusions are logical, others should accept them automatically. That's not good enough. You have to communicate -- constantly, emotionally and directly...
...contrast, the "preaching from the pulpit" style of the GOP Convention alienated many moderate women, said Pieper, who is a Republican...
...while the audience is puzzling that out, "A River Runs Through It" happily recounts the Huckleberry Finn-like childhood of Norman Maclean (played by Craig Sheffer) and his brother Paul (Brad Pitt). Their father (Tom Skerritt) is both a preacher and a fisher, sermonizing from the pulpit, the study and from the river banks. The Reverend Maclean teaches them equal respect for God's word and God's fish. As he is happy to remind his children, the apostles were all fishers - and fly fishers at that...