Word: scolding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With an amazing capacity to seek out scoundrels and scold them, the muckrakers exhumed disgrace everywhere. They goaded Congress into adopting a bristling bouquet of reform legislation, gave birth to the Progressive movement, and stirred the U.S. into new social consciousness...
...calculated and records kept. For eager parents, over-worked teachers, curious friends, even for the student himself, these grades are the measure of his success--and in senior year, the record is sent off to fellowship committees and prospective employers. According to its authoritative testimony, parents praise or scold, committees grant or withhold, so that even if grades served only as a report to others, the record would have to be taken seriously. Of course, it means more, for most students depend upon grades as the tangible evidence of their own achievement...
Wyzanski has strong ideas about what a judge should and should not be. "He is not to be a common scold," he wrote in an opinion reprinted recently in the Atlantic. "Nor is he to use his place to push before the public his name, his views, his personality." Yet Judge Wyzanski is noted for the breach of his own advice, and just last February his bench manners earned him scathing reproof from a U.S. Court of Ap peals. "It is clear from the record before us," wrote the appellate court in remanding a case to Wyzanski, "that the confusion...
...profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that carbuncular Shakespearean scold, Thersites ("Lechery, lechery! Still wars and lechery"). Between the wailing and the railing, some valid points get made...
...does not scold infants for fear of inducing a trauma, but the Loeb Drama Center, the wayward son of Harvard drama, is old enough now to have its faults pointed out. After a full term with the new theatre, disturbing and pernicious tendencies can be discerned in both its administration and its general effect on College drama...