Word: scold
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Political apathy is an old story, and my purpose in this column is not to remind us all yet again of America's embarrassingly low voter turnout rate and scold those who don't take the time to vote. Rather, I write in response to the kind of political cynicism that allows those who do conscientiously devote time to following politics to dismiss so readily the importance and novelty of this presidential election...
Bill Bennett can scarcely walk into an airport or restaurant these days without an admirer's stopping to scold him about his refusal to run for President. He sometimes responds, only half jokingly, that he would have to give up too much influence. As Education Secretary for President Reagan and drug czar for President Bush, Bennett spent eight years around the White House. "And I can't imagine," he says, "how being President could be more interesting than all the things I'm doing...
...enough to bring a smile to the face of William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education and dependable moral scold who, along with Democratic Senators Joseph Lieberman and Sam Nunn, launched a crusade last October against what Bennett termed the "cultural rot" of TV talk shows. Said Lieberman at the time: "These shows increasingly make the abnormal normal and set up the most perverse role models. It's time for a revolt of the revolted." The trio went so far as to make a TV ad targeting advertisers on the more controversial programs...
...scold yourself, man! And go forth next semester into the worthwhile world of which you have up to now been deprived. Vomitas...
PHILIP BANKS DEVELOPED HIS BELIEF IN the "long arm of supervision" while growing up in Harlem and Brooklyn. Even when his father, a truck driver, was away on a trip and his mother was off cleaning other people's homes, neighbors would come over to supervise, scold and soothe. "You always felt like someone was watching," recalls Banks, 53. When he became a father of three boys, he kept close watch and joined the neighborhood block association to help others. His strategy for keeping his children out of trouble: Stick close. "I went to school on PTA night. If there...