Word: soapboxed
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...this light-hearted and heavy-handed intrigue goes unchallenged, the study committee will have become another small soapbox for campus partisans. A group which potentially can carry on a serious, disinterested study of an honest international problem will have fallen prey to the petty machinations of undergraduate politicians...
...sponsor's edict. His summary: "Every word of dialogue that might be remotely 'Southern' in context was deleted or altered. A geographical change was made to a New England town. When it was ultimately produced, its thesis had been diluted, and my characters had mounted a soapbox to shout something that had become too vague to warrant any shouting...
Other U.S. critics may have made as high demands on the theater, but none has ever matched the bright, Nathanic blend of impudence and intellect, rapture and irreverence. "Art," he held, "is a beautiful, swollen lie; criticism, a cold compress." While he derided "soapbox philosophers" and "commercial uplifters," Critic Nathan preached, cajoled and bullied to carve out a niche for Eugene O'Neill, the first U.S. dramatist to achieve worldwide renown. He worked as hard to popularize such famed European playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar, and Luigi Pirandello. Says the New York Times's Drama...
Destitute, deserted, covered by rags and sores, J.B. receives the Three Comforters of the Bible. MacLeish makes Zophar a broken-down priest, Eliphaz a wreck of a doctor and Bildad a soapbox-orating Communist. Guilt is their subject, and each tries to explain it away in his own fashion, but J.B. cries...
...Ranck, lecturer in psychology and religion at Drew University. "The drive-in church, the mobile pulpit, the church in a restaurant, the nightclub for college students which conducts a lecture series on which theological school faculty and other clergy occasionally appear-all these and other psychological equivalents of the soapbox on the corner are suggestive of what can be done to take religion to marginal groups...