Word: scolds
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...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...
...outlined a cannily timed proposal for across-the-board boosts of "at least 10%" for all 22 million Social Security beneficiaries. Sharing a platform with local party bigwigs (notably absent: Open-Housing Foe George P. Mahoney, Maryland's Democratic gubernatorial nominee), the President chose a curious way to scold the Republicans - by pinning on them the Democratic Party symbol. "Any donkey can kick down a barn," he said, "but it takes a skilled carpenter to build one. There's a big donkey population in this country around this time of year...