Word: pulpiteers
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When President Reagan mounted his bully pulpit to call for a "national crusade" against drugs last month, he was hard put to offer any specifics beyond suggesting that federal employees in "sensitive" jobs, like air- traffic controllers, be required to undergo drug testing. Until now the Administration has focused on interdiction -- catching drug smugglers and . their booty at the border. But while federal seizures of cocaine have increased tenfold in five years, the available supply on the street has not been dented...
...much of the world, Tutu, 54, symbolizes the battle against apartheid. From his new position, he will be the spiritual leader of 1.3 million South Africans, both black and white, and 700,000 more Anglicans in neighboring Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho. With that larger pulpit, he is likely to become even more controversial...
...this galvanizing and polarizing force in presidential politics? Ironically, the description applies equally well to two clergymen who are antipodes in almost every other way: Pat Robertson on the Republican right and Jesse Jackson on the Democratic left. Though both speak in the cadenced tones of the pulpit and address themselves to a constituency that feels embattled and disenfranchised, they differ in race, personality, theology and cultural attitudes. From opposing ends of the political spectrum, each of them is playing a similar role in his party's early maneuvering for 1988 -- and playing it with a gusto that promises...
...many Americans, the word evangelist may evoke visions of fashionably clad pulpit orators performing on television in vast halls before thousands of the faithful. There is, however, another category of evangelists, in the U.S. and elsewhere. In the developing nations where Protestantism shows the most vitality, far more often than not they are humble in social status, travel on foot instead of in limousines and preach in huts rather than crystal cathedrals. While their celebrity counterparts hobnob with the rich and powerful, non-Western evangelists often face harassment or imprisonment for proselytizing, even for importing Bibles...
...shown, TV tuned in, stereo piped through the entire 187-ft. cabin, phone calls made to Katmandu. The President will be able to scan his welcoming crowds on the TV screen as the plane taxis up. He will exit on special stairs from the forward door, an elegant pulpit high above his waiting subjects...