Word: soapbox
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...know about the horrors of Vietnam. But it wasn't entertaining. We wanted to make a movie about these quadriplegics, not a movie about quadriplegia. We wanted it told from their perspective, which is why we shot much of the film from a wheelchair. We've kicked away the soapbox. We aren't preaching at you. We also tried to shoot, edit, score and pace it like a feature film. We chose subjects who had, if there is such a thing, star quality. We tried our best to make the movie not look and feel like a documentary...
However, we must admit, while trying not to Shout® from our soapbox, that the aforementioned editorial and previous Crimson coverage of the Lather have been so misguided in motivation and so lacking in accuracy that they could go unaddressed no longer. To end this Tide® of irresponsible journalism, we’d like to dispel some false rumors spread, intentionally or otherwise, by The Crimson’s coverage of the Lather. With great Joy®, we announce that, contrary to The Crimson’s allegations, no one contracted sexually transmitted diseases at the Lather (although...
Plausible legend has it that the Sheeds met on a soapbox. For most of their marriage they appeared to coexist on one platform or another, like figurines on a wedding cake. Sheed estimates that his father alone delivered some 14,000 outdoor sermons, manning pulpits in Hyde Park and on street corners from his native Sydney to his favorite adopted borough, Manhattan...
...work traversed the history of his century. In the '30s, as a student at the University of Chicago, he wrote for a local Socialist journal,the Soapbox; in the '40s, he was on the fringes of theleftish Partisan Review crowd. Two decades later, he found himself at odds with the student movement, anathematized by radicals as a reactionary--the eponymous �migr� intellectual of Mr. Sammler's Planet. In the late '80s, when the culture wars erupted, the Nobel laureate was forced to defend the canon of Western literature against "politically correct" students and professors eager to indict that tradition...
...public, those are few. In talking to people at Harvard, it’s not hard to find someone who’s had a personal experience with Larry that they found bruising. So it’s not these exceptional moments where he decides to get on the soapbox or something. His whole intellectual method, which to him is simply designed to drive towards an ever more rigorous truth, strikes other people as being designed to undermine their credibility...