Word: scolding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Official Ireland, the beloved woman of the old patriotic songs has been a special hag to her poets, chasing them and censoring them like a worn-out scold. But that war is nearly over. A middle class, as conventional and tolerant as anybody's, is now growing up in the cities, and the Charm is being taken over by the Tourist Board. Bogus castles, renovated pubs and professional colorful characters may be all that survive of it, unless the Irish pass a miracle that has defeated other folk people and keep the flower without also keeping the dunghill...
...conscientious but lethargic revival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, the play drones on like a college seminar labeled "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism, 1412-1431." In the title role, Diana Sands is earth-bound but never God-intoxicated, more of a common scold than an uncommon saint...
...their preference for conformity, women teachers tend to scold disorderly boys much more often and much more harshly than they do girls, but this often only leads to greater aggressiveness by the boys. Partly because of this, at least twice as many boys are reported to principals for learning and behavior disorders, nearly two-thirds of all grade repeaters are boys. Three times as many boys as girls develop stuttering problems...
...should be a clear, simple "substitute for talking to someone." He shunned both whimsy and the knuckle-hard TV sell. As an account man, his ability to hold on to such maverick clients as Hallmark Cards' Joyce Hall became legendary. Publicly, Cone emerged as the most respected scold of the industry. He once scourged the "tasteless people" in advertising as the "miserable, crawly two or three per cent who represent the advertising horn of our dilemma...
...realists, in their despair over Ronald Reagan, not scold us Californians too much. It might have been John Wayne...