Word: soapbox
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...understatement truly gets to the core of feeling: “I have been talking to my sister she / may not know she’s been dust and ashes / for the last two years I talk to her / nearly every day.” Here there is no soapbox, only a frighteningly casual realization of mortality tempered with the constant desire to avoid death. Such ideas may not be new, but the understatement makes them as tangible as ever. Simultaneously celebratory and elegiac, it’s surprising that Paley’s voice, capable of speaking confidently...
...father remembering his son’s face. This familiarity is what makes “Our Story Begins” such a delight. Wolff pares his stories down to the core of fiction. He understands that even the most charged issues must be rendered not on a soapbox or in a drama, but in the little things.—Staff writer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...most unique about the book the intense hatred that Leitch, who runs the popular sports blog Deadspin.com, holds for all things ESPN. A not-so-subtle anti-big-media theme can be found throughout “God Save the Fan,” but Leitch’s soapbox is hardly compelling. His argues that ESPN has ties to the NFL, NBA, and other major sports associations and so has little incentive to publish sports news that reflects poorly on these groups or threatens the star players who are their greatest sources of revenue. But the only knowledge...
...tide doesn’t seem set to turn soon, either; American government-as-religion seems set to win more converts, not to dissolve. For example, Obama has interspersed his soapbox oratory with calls for a new “national service,” one that aims to instill an optimistic sense of duty and country in young Americans like ourselves. Meanwhile, McCain has mused of regiments of uniformed young charity workers living in barracks, a return to the days of the Civilian Community Corps . But it’s hard to see how pressuring or coercing our youth...
...Christian sentiments into your books? -Steve Bohannon, PhiladelphiaI'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books. One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers...