Word: pulpits
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That world is full of dangers. Charles VIII of France is preparing to march on the city. The fanatical monk Savonarola is raging from the pulpit against lust and luxury. His religious police, a kind of Christian Taliban, will soon be enforcing godliness with a cudgel, punishing sodomists and chasing women indoors. The turmoil outside interests Alessandra, but what really absorbs her is the young painter her father has brought from Northern Europe to decorate the family chapel. For a while you wonder if this mysterious stranger will somehow turn out to be Albrecht Durer, who ventured to Italy--though...
Thompson also said that Gutmann was likely to exercise her bully pulpit, focusing on issues of egalitarianism in education. She’d add the voice of a humanist to a dialogue dominated by economics, he added, alluding to the professions of Yale and Harvard’s presidents...
President Bush’s record on gay marriage suggests that his support for the amendment is not far off. He opposes the Massachusetts ruling and has already used the presidential pulpit to institutionalize the euphemistic Defense of Marriage Week and, in a press conference this July, to insinuate that homosexuals are “sinners.” The amendment also draws support well beyond the religious right. Three of the bill’s six cosponsors in the House were Democrats, and even members of the Civil Rights movement like Walter Fauntroy, who helped organize Martin Luther King...
...taken, so that Harvard’s name and resources can help bring down the amendment. Even an unsuccessful suit would underscore the University’s dedication to equal rights. When Summers took office in 2001, many on campus were hopeful that he would use his bully pulpit to take principled stands on issues of national importance. Now is his chance...
...what an “appropriate” venue to denounce racism would be. Surely one would have thought that a meeting of the world’s great liberal democracies—nations committed to the ideals of freedom, and pluralism—would be the ideal pulpit from which to take a strong stand against racism. What better place to face down the ugly visage of anti-Semitism than the meeting of an organization born out of the ashes of Adolf Hitler’s racist weltanschauung? Sadly, Chirac passed up the opportunity to take an unambiguous stand...