Word: pulpiteering
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...Saddam. From the beginning of the Persian Gulf showdown, Bush personalized the conflict. He implied that Saddam's removal from power, if not from this world, was as much an American objective as his eviction from Kuwait. He denounced Saddam as "worse than Hitler." When hurled from the bully pulpit, such epithets have, as they say in Washington, policy implications. They create expectations and raise questions: Would Hitler have been allowed to remain the Fuhrer of Germany after World...
Both Malone and Ford said that the man, who was seated about five rows from the pulpit, is homeless and that he frequents the streets of Harvard Square...
After months of refusing to take any real action for fear of rankling Jeffries supporters on campus, even the City University of New York said last week they would remove Jeffries from his bully pulpit as chair of the Afro-American Studies Department...
What file readers discover is just how pervasive the network of betrayal was. Stasi tentacles extended into the schoolroom, the pulpit, the bedroom, even the confessional: Roman Catholic authorities are investigating indications that penitents' confessions reached the Stasi through hidden microphones or corrupted priests. Stasi technicians bugged homes, telephones, cars and seats in concert halls. The Stasi's "Section 8" dealt with children, requiring principals of every school in the country to keep a file of "dangerous persons" in their classrooms. Teachers filled out forms on "conspicuous" children, some as young as 9, who expressed views critical of the state...
...seek to discuss the issue and it is no wonder that Thernstrom might feel threatened. Yet in the aftermath of his attacks on The Crimson, the effect of shouting "p.c." has been less speech and not more; it has forced students into silence, and merely amplified the professorial bully pulpit that the professor, by profession, already possessed...